Henriette Hanke

Henriette Hanke
Born 24 June 1785 Edit this on Wikidata
Died 15 July 1862 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 77)
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Henriette Hanke née Arndt (24 June 1785 Jauer, Niederschlesien – 15 July 1862) was a German writer. She is considered one of the most successful authors of the first half of the 19th century.

Life

She was born in 1785 in Jauer (Lower Silesia) as one of five daughters of the merchant Johann Jakob Arndt. At the age of 20 she was forced to marry the much older widowed pastor Gottfried Heinrich Carl Hanke from Dyhernfurth. After his death in 1819, she returned to her Jauersches home and spent the rest of her life an the old apartment of her parents.

She began her career with a series of family novels, which were mainly directed at women and aroused universal admiration.[1] Later she switched to didactic works where one finds much of the sentimental enthusiasm of popular romance. She was always concerned to be, after her own unhappy marriage, as a comforter and adviser to other lonely women, to give them in reading her novels and short stories, the feeling of comforting togetherness, to communicate with them. She left a total of 64 volumes of the "Collected Works" (Hannover edition 1860). Some of her works have been translated into English, Swedish, Danish, Russian and Polish, among others.

Henriette Hanke died in Jauer in 1862 and was buried in the cemetery of the Jauersche Friedenskirche. Her tomb disappeared around 1970. In 1997 she was honored by a plaque at her home in Jauer.

Works

  • Die Perlen. Roman ... Zweite Auflage. Liegnitz, Jauer, 1836. OCLC 560220404
  • Das Jagdschloss Diana und Wallys Garten. Zwei Erzählungen. ... Zweite verbesserte Auflage. Liegnitz, Jauer, 1836. OCLC 560220393

References

  1. ↑ Gostwick, Joseph (1849). German Literature. Chambers.
  • "Books by Hanke, Henriette Wilhelmine Arndt (sorted by popularity) - Project Gutenberg". gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  • "Karin schreibt org » Henriette Hanke". karin-schreibt.org. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
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