. The Open court. MINNA HERZLIEB. Herzlieb are appropriated by Bettina. and Goethe is made to expresssentiments which can not have been in the orisfinal letters. Minna Herzlieb (born May 22, 1789, in Zulichau) was edu-cated in the house of the publisher Frommel at Jena, where Goethemade her acquaintance and entertained a fatherly friendship for her. GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. Ill We may assume that he loved her. though the word Un-e wasnever spoken between them. It is beHeved that she furnished themain features for the character of Ottihe in the Elective Affinitieswhich he planned at that tim
. The Open court. MINNA HERZLIEB. Herzlieb are appropriated by Bettina. and Goethe is made to expresssentiments which can not have been in the orisfinal letters. Minna Herzlieb (born May 22, 1789, in Zulichau) was edu-cated in the house of the publisher Frommel at Jena, where Goethemade her acquaintance and entertained a fatherly friendship for her. GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. Ill We may assume that he loved her. though the word Un-e wasnever spoken between them. It is beHeved that she furnished themain features for the character of Ottihe in the Elective Affinitieswhich he planned at that time. She was married in 1821 to Pro-fessor Walch of Jena but later separated from her Inisband. Shesuffered from melancholia and died July 10, 1865, in a sanatariumat Goerlitz. At the celebration of the lirst anniversar\ of the battle ofLeipsic in 1814, Goethe visited his native city, where he met a rich. FRAU MARIANNE VON WIELEMER, NEE JUNG. As she appeared in 1814. (After an engraving by Doris Raab,published by Cotta). banker, the privy councilor Johaim Jacob von Willemer. On theWillemer estate in the vicinity of the Gerbermiihle near Ofifenbach,the poet made the acquaintance of Marianne Jung, later Frau vonWillemer, a most attractive and highly intellectual lady. She wasborn November, 1784, as the daughter of Alatthias Jung, a manu-facturer of musical instruments at Linz on the Danube, but sinceher father died during her childhood the young girl was compelledto make her own living, and she joined the Thaub ballet at Frank-fort on the Main in 1799. She appeared on the stage, but the privycouncilor who was in charge of the business management of the 112 THE OPEN COURT. theater soon rescued the charming maiden from the dangers of atheatrical career. He took her into his home and had her educated
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