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ARNIM, ELISABETH (BETTINA) VON (1785-1859) , See also:German authoress, See also:sister of Klemens See also:Brentano, was See also:born at Frankforton-See also:Main on the 4th of See also:April 1785. After being educated at a See also:convent school in See also:Fritzlar, she lived for a while with her See also:grand-See also:mother, the novelist, Sophie Laroche (1731-1807), at See also:Offenbach, and from 1803 to 18,36 with her See also:brother-in-See also:law, See also:Friedrich von See also:Savigny, the famous jurist, at See also:Marburg. In 1807 she made at See also:Weimar the acquaintance of See also:Goethe, -for whom she entertained a violent See also:passion, which the poet, although entering into See also:correspondence with her, did not requite, but only regarded as a harm-less See also:fancy. Their friendship came to an abrupt end in 1811, owing to " Bettina's " insolent behaviour to Goethe's wife. In this See also:year she married See also:Ludwig Achim von Arnim (q.v.), by whom she had seven See also:children. After her See also:husband's See also:death in 1831, her passion for Goethe revived, and in 1835 she published her remarkable See also:book, Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde, which purported to be a correspondence between herself and the poet. Regarded at first as genuine, it was afterwards for many years looked upon as wholly fictitious, until the publication in 1879 of G. von Loeper's Briefe Goethes an Sophie Laroche and Bettina Brentano, nebsi dichterischen Beilagen, which proved it to be based on See also:authentic material, though treated with the greatest poetical See also:licence. Equally fantastic is her correspondence See also:Die Gunderode (184o), with her unhappy friend, the poet, Karoline von Gunderode (1780-1806), who committed See also:suicide, and that with her brother Klemens Brentano, under the See also:title Klemens Brentanos Friihlingskranz (1844). She also published See also:Dies See also:Bach gehort dem See also:Konig (1843), in which she advocated the emancipation of the See also:Jews, and the abolition of See also:capital See also:punishment. Among her other See also:works may be mentioned Ilius Pamphilius and die See also:Ambrosia (1848), also a supposititious correspondence. In all her writings she showed real poetical See also:genius, combined with See also:evidence of an unbalanced mind and a mannerism which becomes tiresome. She died at See also:Berlin on the loth of See also:January 1859.

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Part of a See also:design by her for a See also:colossal statue of Goethe, executed in See also:marble by the sculptor Karl Steinhauser (1813-1878), is in the museum at Weimar. Her collected works (Samtliche Schriften) were published in Berlin in 11 vols., 1853. Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde has been edited by H. See also:Grimm (4th ed., Berlin, 1890). See also C.

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