See also:

• CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE VON See also:

• CHARLOTTE VON STEIN (1742-1827)
• STEIN, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH KARL, BARON VOM

STEIN (1742-1827)  , the friend of See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar on the 25th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1742, the eldest daughter of the Hofmarschall (See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the ceremonies) von Schardt . She became in her sixteenth See also:

• YEAR

year See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady-in-waiting to the duchess See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna Amaiia,the accomplished See also:

• MOTHER

mother of See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke Karl See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August of See also:

• SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1816-1887)
• SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE (1696-1750)

Saxe-Weimar . In 1764 she married Freiherr Fried-See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich von See also:

• STEIN, CHARLOTTE VON (1742-1827)
• STEIN, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH KARL, BARON VOM

Stein, master of the See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse to the duke, and seven See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children were the issue of the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union . Goethe, who arrived in Weimar in 1775, was soon captivated by the See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of this lady, his See also:

• SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior by seven years, and the Seelenbund (union of souls) they formed exercised a furthering and ennobling See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence upon Goethee's See also:

• LIFE

life and See also:

• WORK

work . For more than ten years See also:

• CHARLOTTE

Charlotte von Stein was his See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion, and by her See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright and genial nature and friendship she stimulated his efforts and assuaged his cares . On Goethe's return from See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy in 1788 the previous intimate relations between them were relaxed, and the poet's connexion with Christiane See also:

• VULPIUS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST (1762-1827)

Vulpius still further estranged them . Charlotte's See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy and indignation at first. knew no See also:

• BOUNDS, BEATING THE

bounds, and it was only by slow: degrees that friendship was restored . Charlotte von Stein was also intimate with See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller and his wife, and numerous interesting letters from her are to be found in Charlotte von Schiller and ihre Freunde (vol. ii., 1862) . She became a widow in 1793, but continued to live at Weimar until her See also:

• DEATH

death there on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1827 . Goethe's letters to Frau von Stein See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form one of the most interesting volumes of the poet's See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence . Her own letters addressed to him were returned to her at her See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request and destroyed shortly before her death . A See also:

• PROSE

prose tragedy, See also:

• DIDO, or ELISSA

Dido, written by her in 1792 (published 1867), is of little poetical value .

Goethe's Briefe an Frau von Stein aus den Jahren r776—r82o were edited by A . See also:

• SCHOLL, AURELIEN (1833- )

Scholl (3 vols., 1848—1851; 2nd ed..by W . Fielitz, 1883—1885; 3rd ed., by J . Wahle, 1900) . See H . Diintzer, Charlotte von Stein (2 vols., 1874) ; id., Charlotte von Stein and See also:

• CORONA (Lat. for " crown ")

Corona See also:

• SCHROTER, JOHANN HIERONYMUS (1745-1816)

Schroter (1876) ; G . H . See also:

• CALVERT
• CALVERT, FREDERICK CRACE (1819–1873)
• CALVERT, SIR HARRY, BART

Calvert, Charlotte von Stein (See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston and New 'See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1877) ; and A . Sauer, Frauenbilder aus der Blutezeit der deutschen Literatur (1885); W . See also:

• BODE, JOHANN ELERT (1747–1826)

Bode, Charlotte von Stein (191o) .