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Agnes Franz, real name Louise Antoinette Eleonore Konstanze Agnes Franzky, (8 February 1794 – 13 May 1843) was a German writer.
''Parabelen van Agnes Franz''
on WorldCat 1829 * ''Angela''. 1831 * ''Stundenblumen''. 1833 * ''Kinderschatz''. 1841 * ''Vermächtnis an die Jugend''. 1841 * ''Glycerion''. 1842
Digitalisat
* * * A. Siebelt: ''Agnes Franz, eine vaterländische Dichterin''. In ''Wir Schlesier''. 5.1924/25, . * Julie von Grossmann, ''Eine biographische Skizze'', in Hell: Penelope für 1845, .
Luise Antoinette Franzky
in '' with detailed primary and secondary bibliography {{DEFAULTSORT:Franz, Agnes German women writers 19th-century German women writers 1794 births 1843 deaths People from Milicz
Agnes Franz, real name Louise Antoinette Eleonore Konstanze Agnes Franzky, (8 February 1794 – 13 May 1843) was a German writer.
Life
Born in Milicz,Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is spli ...
, Franz was the daughter of a Silesian government and court councillor. After the death of her father in 1801, her mother moved with her daughters to Åšcinawa
Åšcinawa (german: Steinau an der Oder, links=no) is a town and municipality on the Oder river in the Lower Silesian region of Poland. The Åšcinawa train station is a key gateway for travel throughout the region, connecting major destinations su ...
.
In 1807, she suffered a serious accident with her travelling carriage and remained physically disabled and suffering for the rest of her life. The family moved to Steinach in 1811 and later to Oberarnsdorf on an uncle's estate. At the outbreak of the German Campaign of 1813
The German campaign (german: Befreiungskriege , lit=Wars of Liberation ) was fought in 1813. Members of the Sixth Coalition, including the German states of Austria and Prussia, plus Russia and Sweden, fought a series of battles in Germany ag ...
, the family fled to Landeck
Landeck () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck.
Geography
Landeck is located in the Tyrolean Oberland in the west of the state at an elevation of about . The town is situated in the valley of the Inn ...
. A short stay in Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
in 1821 brought her the acquaintance of Johann Friedrich Kind, Pauline von Brochowska and Theodor Hell. Her friendship with Julie von Großmann (1790-1860), who later administered and edited her estate.
When her mother died in 1822, Franz moved in with her sister, who was married in Wesel
Wesel () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district.
Geography
Wesel is situated at the confluence of the Lippe River and the Rhine.
Division of the city
Suburbs of Wesel include Lackhausen, Obrigh ...
on the Lower Rhine
The Lower Rhine (german: Niederrhein; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the river Rhine) flows from Bonn, Germany, to the North Sea at Hook of Holland, Netherlands (including the Nederrijn or "Nether Rhine" within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta); ...
, as she needed support due to her disability. She lived with her sister's family in Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 square ...
between 1830 and 1837. With her small inheritance and great energy, Franz founded and ran a and a working school for poor girls in Wesel.
After the death of her brother-in-law in 1837, Franz moved to Breslau together with her sister and her sister's four children. Here, too, Franz became involved and founded a charity school
Charity schools, sometimes called blue coat schools, or simply the Blue School, were significant in the history of education in England. They were built and maintained in various parishes by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants to ...
, which she also directed.
At the age of 49, Franz died on 13 May 1843 in Breslau, where her memorial stone is also located in the cemetery of the . The grave itself was levelled during road construction work on the occasion of the widening of Elbingstraße in July 1914.
Work
* ''Der Sonnenhold''. 1821 * ''Gedichte''. 1826. * ''Der Christbaum''. 1829 * ''Parabeln''.on WorldCat 1829 * ''Angela''. 1831 * ''Stundenblumen''. 1833 * ''Kinderschatz''. 1841 * ''Vermächtnis an die Jugend''. 1841 * ''Glycerion''. 1842
References
Further reading
* Adolph Kohut: ''Agnes Franz. Eine biographisch-literarische Studie''. In: '' Nord und Süd. Eine deutsche Monatsschrift''. 69th volumes. 1894,Digitalisat
* * * A. Siebelt: ''Agnes Franz, eine vaterländische Dichterin''. In ''Wir Schlesier''. 5.1924/25, . * Julie von Grossmann, ''Eine biographische Skizze'', in Hell: Penelope für 1845, .
External links
* *Luise Antoinette Franzky
in '' with detailed primary and secondary bibliography {{DEFAULTSORT:Franz, Agnes German women writers 19th-century German women writers 1794 births 1843 deaths People from Milicz