Amalie Theodore Caroline von Levetzow (née von Brösigke; 1788 - 1868) was a German noblewoman.

Life

In 1803 she married Joachim Otto Ulrich von Levetzow (25 March 1777 - 28 January 1843) Earlier that year she was painted by

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as the ''Leipziger Tischbein'' (9 March 1750, Maastricht - 21 June 1812, Heidelberg) was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists. Biography He received his first lessons from his ...

. She and Joachim had two daughters,

Ulrike Ulrike is a Germanic female given name. Notable people named Ulrike include: * Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel (1722–1787), German noble * Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), German noble and friend of Johann Wolfgang von G ...

and Amalia (or Amélie), but then the couple divorced. She then married his cousin Friedrich Carl Ulrich von Levetzow, who was killed at the

Battle of Waterloo The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armie ...

. She and Friedrich had one child, Bertha. In 1821, 1822 and 1823 she and her children stayed at Marienbad, where she met daily with the 72-year-old

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...

. They became friends and he fell in love with Ulrike, then only seventeen. He sent her a marriage proposal via Amalie, having not mentioned it before to her or Ulrike.

Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political uni ...

met with Ulrike's mother to speak in Goethe's favour and - though she felt she could not refuse the Grand Duke - she stated any final decision must rest with Ulrike. She never mentioned the proposal to Ulrike, who never married. Goethe wrote of the situation in his

Marienbad Elegy The "Marienbad Elegy" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is named after the spa town of Marienbad (now Mariánské Lázně) where Goethe, 73 years old, spent the summer of 1821. There he fell in love with the 17-year-old Ulrike von Levetz ...

. Amalie married a third time in 1843 to Franz Josef von Klebelsberg-Thumburg zu Třiblitz (24 July 1774 - 28 December 1857), President of the Hofkammer of the Austrian Empire and a count in the Bohemian nobility. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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/ref> After his death she inherited his estate at Třiblitz - she died there and left it to Ulrike.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Levetzow, Amalie Von 1788 births 1868 deaths German nobility Johann Wolfgang von Goethe