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Lili Parthey (real name ''Elisabeth Parthey'' (1800 – 1829) was a German author whose diaries are regarded as important historical testimonies to the Biedermeier era.
''Du hattest gleich mir's angethan,''
''Doch nun gewahr ich neues Leben;''
''Ein süßer Mund blickt uns gar freundlich an,''
''Wenn er uns einen Kuß gegeben''.
''Eine Berlinerin bezaubert den alten Goethe. Den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Lili Partheys nacherzählt''
in Die Geschichte Berlins in Jahrbuch "Der Bär von Berlin", published by , volume 12, Berlin 1963.
Lili Parthey (real name ''Elisabeth Parthey'' (1800 – 1829) was a German author whose diaries are regarded as important historical testimonies to the Biedermeier era.
Life
Parthey was a granddaughter ofFriedrich Nicolai
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller.
Life
Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller ''Nicolaisch ...
and a sister of Gustav Parthey Gustav Friedrich Konstantin Parthey (27 October 1798 – 2 April 1872) was a German philologist and art historian.
Life
Born in Berlin, Parthey was the son of (1745–1822), Geheimrat in the General Finance Directorate in Berlin, and Wilhelmine ...
. She received singing lessons from Amalie Sebald and married Bernhard Klein in 1825. The marriage produced a daughter. Parthey's diaries were printed in 1926 by her grandson . These notes give a vivid picture of the bourgeois lifestyle of their time. The diaries written between 1814 and 1829 are owned by her family. They were shown in 2007 as part of the exhibition ''Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit'' at the Berlin Stadtmuseum; parts of them, read by Blanche Kommerell, were available in individual rooms of the exhibition.
A portrait of Parthey from the time around 1825 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 – 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter.
Biography
He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turne ...
shows her in the typical Biedermeier fashion with almost shoulderless dress, unadorned neck, centre parting, curly canes and chignon; On 23 July 1823, 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 tr ...
dedicated these verses to her:
Further reading
* Rudolf Danke: ''Eine Berlinerin bezaubert den alten Goethe. Den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Lili Partheys nacherzählt'',in Die Geschichte Berlins in Jahrbuch "Der Bär von Berlin", published by , volume 12, Berlin 1963.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parthey, Lili 19th-century German writers German women writers Women diarists 1800 births 1829 deaths 19th-century diarists