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KAROLINE SCHELLING (1763-1809)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHELLING (1763-1809)  , one of the most intellectual See also:German See also:women of her See also:age, was See also:born at See also:Gottingen on the 2nd of See also:September 1763, the daughter of the orientalist See also:Michaelis . She married, in 1784, a See also:district medical officer, one See also:Bohmer, in See also:Clausthal in the Harz, and after his See also:death, in 1788, returned to Gottingen . Here she entered into See also:close relations to the poet Gottfried See also:August See also:Burger and the critic of the Romantic school, August Wilhelm See also:Schlegel . In 1791 she took up her See also:residence in See also:Mainz, joined the famous society of the Clubbists (Klubbisten), and suffered a See also:short See also:period of imprison-ment on See also:account of her See also:political opinions . In 1796 she married Schlegel, was divorced in 1803, and then became the wife of the philosopher See also:Friedrich Wilhelm See also:Joseph von See also:Schelling . She died at Maulbronn on the 7th of September 1809 . Karoline Schelling played a considerable role in the intellectual See also:movement of her See also:time, and is especially remarkable for the assistance she afforded Schlegel in his See also:translation of See also:Shakespeare's See also:works . She published nothing, however, in her own name . See G . Waltz, See also:Caroline: Briefe an ihre Geschwister, &c . (2 vols., 1871), and, by the same author, Caroline and ihre Freunde (1882); further, J . See also:Janssen, Eine Kulturdame and ihre Freunde, Zeit- and Lebensbilder (1885), and Mrs .

A . See also:

Sidgwick, Caroline Schlegel and her See also:Friends (See also:London, 1899) .

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