Barbara Schulthess (1745 - 1818), was a Swiss '' Salonnière''. From 1772 onward, she hosted a literary salon in Zürich, which came to be regarded as the intellectual center of contemporary Zürich. She is known as the friend and correspondent of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She was the daughter of a silk trader and married the silk trader Hauptmann David Schulthess (d. 1778) in 1763.

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* Bernhard Suphan: ''Goethe und Barbara Schulthess''. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt 1892 1745 births 1818 deaths 18th-century Swiss people 19th-century Swiss people 18th-century Swiss women 18th-century Swiss businesspeople 19th-century Swiss women Swiss salon-holders 18th-century Swiss women writers 19th-century Swiss women writers 18th-century Swiss writers 19th-century Swiss writers {{Switzerland-writer-stub