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Friederike Elisabetha Brion〔Karl Robert Mandelkow, Bodo Morawe: Goethes Briefe. 2. edition. Vol. 1: Briefe der Jahre 1764-1786. ''Christian Wegner'' publishers, Hamburg 1968, p. 571〕 (probably 19 April 1752 Niederrœdern, Alsace – 3 April 1813 Meißenheim near Lahr) was a parson's daughter who had a short, but intense love-affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe. == Biography == The date of birth of Friederike is uncertain because the parish registers were destroyed during the French revolution. Friederike was the third of five surviving children of the married couple Brion. The father, Jakob Brion, took over a post as the parson of the village of Sessenheim on St. Martin's Day 1760. Friederike—nice, jolly, but a little sickish—grew up in the village. The young Johann Wolfgang Goethe from Frankfurt am Main visited the hospitable parsonage, like several other young people, while studying law in Strasbourg. He first reached Sessenheim in October 1770 and met Friederike there, for the first time, the same month,〔〔Herman Grimm: Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Vol. 1. ''J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger'', Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 81〕 when he was exploring the region on horseback with an Alsatian friend, the medical student Friedrich Leopold Weyland (1750-1785〔Karl Robert Mandelkow, Bodo Morawe: Goethes Briefe. 2. edition. Vol. 1: Briefe der Jahre 1764-1786. ''Christian Wegner'', Hamburg 1968, p. 572〕). His depiction of Friederike, whom he liked most of the parson's three daughters, contains a lot of fantastical additions, but shows the situation vividly and lovingly, mentioning Friederike's slenderness and lightness, her way of walking "as if she did not have to bear anything at herself", the impression that her neck was nearly too tender for her dainty head with its mighty tresses, the clearly brisk glance of her serene blue eyes, and her nice snub-nose "searching as freely in the air as if there could be no sorrow in the world".〔Valerian Tornius: Goethe — Leben, Wirken und Schaffen. ''Ludwig-Röhrscheid-Verlag'', Bonn 1949, p. 56-57〕 The description is counted a literary masterwork that shows an enchanting scene with the help of modest colors.〔Herman Grimm: Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Vol. 1. ''J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger'', Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 74〕 Goethe, beginning already in winter,〔Valerian Tornius: ''Goethe — Leben, Wirken und Schaffen''. Ludwig-Röhrscheid-Verlag, Bonn 1949, p. 57〕 rode to Sessenheim many times, over the following months, and used to stay with the Brions for periods of up to several weeks.〔Herman Grimm: Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Vol. 1. ''J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger'', Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 77〕 He roamed the surrounding area with Friederike, undertook boat trips with her, in the waters of the Rhine, and visited acquaintances with her. For the ensuing time, Sessenheim became the “center of the Earth” for the poet. He experienced an idyll that brought about things new and unknown to him〔Valerian Tornius: ''Goethe — Leben, Wirken und Schaffen''. Ludwig Röhrscheid publishers, Bonn 1949, p. 59〕 and was inspirited by this to verse, after a longer time, again. In spring 1771, he wrote a couple of poems and songs, which he sometimes sent to Friederike with painted ribbons. These ''Sesenheimer Lieder'' (among them ''Maifest'', ''Willkommen und Abschied'' and ''Heidenröslein'') became crucial for the Sturm und Drang and founded Goethe's fame as a poet.〔 But already in early summer 1771 Goethe thought of ending the liaison. On 7 August of that year, he saw Friederike for the last time before he returned to Frankfurt. Only from Frankfurt, he sent the beloved a letter by which he definitely severed the love-affair.〔Valerian Tornius: ''Goethe — Leben, Wirken und Schaffen''. Ludwig-Röhrscheid-Verlag, Bonn 1949, p. 60〕 Friederike answered him in a heart-rending letter.〔Herman Grimm: Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Vol. 1. ''J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger'', Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 79〕 Goethe at least one time—on a trip to Switzerland in 1779—returned to the Sessenheim parsonage. Some uncertain sources mention a further visit in 1782, when Friederike's older sister Maria Salomea married Gottfried Marx from Strasbourg, who had just become parson in Diersburg (today Hohberg). In summer 1772, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz courted Friederike, who was still strongly suffering from her lover's grief. But Friederike stayed unmarried till the end of her life and lived in her parents' house up to the death of her father in 1787. (Her mother had died just the year before.) After that, she and her younger sister Sofie went to live with their brother Christian at the parsonage of Rothau (Bas-Rhin), where they stayed when Christian was transferred. They earned their living by selling weaving, earthenware, pottery and handicraft produce and operated a boarding-house for girls from Sessenheim and the village's surroundings who were thought to learn French at a school erected for that sake in Rothau. Friederike moved to the Diersburg parsonage in 1801 to support her sickish older sister Salomea,〔''Salomea'' as the name the older sister was called by: Herman Grimm: Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin. Vol. 1. ''J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger'', Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 73〕 and stayed there, afterwards, with some interruptions. In 1805, she followed the family to Meißenheim. Salomea died in 1807. In 1813, Friederike had to ask her sister Sofie to provide for her. After her death on 5 April of the same year, she was buried on the Meißenheim cemetery. The grave's tombstone by Wilhelm Hornberger was put in its place only in 1866. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friederike Brion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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