Small Letter Hanover Um 1860, An Therese From Arnswaldt (1836-1873), Nobility?

You are bidding on a nice one letter around 1860 out of Hanover.

addressed to MissTherese von Arnswaldt (1836-1873), daughter of the writer and Droste seducer August von Arnswald (1798-1855), who lived in Göttingen stayed with the doctor Karl Ewald Hasse (1810-1902), Robert Koch's teacher.

In 1868 Therese married the diplomat, politician and writer Bodo von Hodenberg (1826-1907)

The unidentified author (signed "D. tr. Sweet M.") calls the addressee “dearest treasure”. Is it a relative?

Apparently the beginning of the letter, which was probably inserted loosely as an extra sheet, is missing.

Transcription:"It is of course impossible to argue about feelings and it is obviously the wisdom that comes from feeling - i.e. from nature, which speaks this way, while divine wisdom teaches us about the blessing and salvation of the cross and of course we often have to believe that without seeing or feeling.

But now farewell, dear Tete, greetings to dear Hasse and Marianne and the others in an unknown way. Grisebachs and everyone else wants to be greeted in Göttingen - hold back Clemens Galen until Werner has successfully passed his exams. When will he do the oral? - I hope soon, yesterday he delivered the files after I read them alternately with Anna to correct any typographical errors - what I read of them seemed very good, comprehensible, clear and thorough to me, I hope that they will help him for the oral will gain a good prejudice.

Now goodbye again, dearest darling, keep it dear D. tr. Sweet M.

Mother and the siblings naturally say hello, Allen is fine - mother has a lot of other things to write about, so there's nothing from her here."

Note: Werner probably means Therese's brother, the manor owner, lawyer and member of the German Reichstag Werner von Arnswaldt (1832-1899), and Anna means her sister Anna Antonia Dorothea Elisabeth Maria von Arnswaldt (1839-1892), who married the mathematician Anton Emanuel Walter in 1862 von Waltheim (1834-1891).

Karl Ewald Hasse mentions Therese in his “Memories from my Life” published in 1902 (p. 236f.): "In contrast, the second daughter, Therese, seemed to have inherited more of her father's serious attitude. She spoke little and was so quiet, especially in society, that Jakob Grimm once said of her in jest: Therese is silent in seven languages. She was all the more mentally occupied and processed her thoughts with seriousness and thoroughness. In familiar private interactions she sometimes surprised people by an eloquent expression of her reflections. - These two carried the germ of consumption early on and were often suffering."

Format: 13.9 x 22.5 cm (folded 5.8 x 13.9 cm).

Condition: The beginning of the letter is missing. paper slightly browned; with tears in the area of ​​the seal (which was divided into two by the opening of the letter and damaged). bitte also note the pictures!

Internal note: Corner 23-10 folder Mehle signed

About the recipient's father and her future husband (source: wikipedia):

August Friedrich Ernst von Arnswaldt (*13. August 1798 in Hanover; † 25. June 1855 ibid) was a German writer.

Life: He came from the Thuringian noble von Arnswaldt family and was the eldest son of the Hanoverian minister and curator of the Göttingen University Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt. He attended high school in Gotha and studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1816 to 1820, while also studying German literature. He was a member of the Hanovera Corps and, together with his corps brother Rudolf Christiani, and probably also Carl August Heinrich Zwicker, he also belonged to the student literary association Poetische Schusterinnung an der Leine in 1817. August von Arnswaldt is reported to have feigned infatuation with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in order to test her loyalty for his friend Heinrich Straube. Von Arnswaldt was connected to Straube and the aforementioned through the publication of the literary newspaper Wunschelruthe (1818).

Arnswaldt belonged to a so-called Bökendorfer circle and met Annette von Droste-Hülshoff there. She first came to Bökendorf at the age of eight to visit her grandparents. The founders and sponsors of the Bökendorfer Kreis were the brothers Werner von Haxthausen and August von Haxthausen and their sisters Anna von Haxthausen, who later became the wife of August von Arnswaldt, Ludowine von Haxthausen and Ferdinandine von Haxthausen. Wilhelm Grimm also came to Bökendorf in 1811, and his brother Jacob Grimm traveled there in 1846. Arnswaldt played an inglorious role in the Bökendorfer circle in relation to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff by playing a key role in causing Droste's so-called “youth catastrophe”. In 1820, Annette, then 23 years old, met the writer Heinrich Straube in Bökendorf. He was a friend of Arnswaldt and not very attractive in appearance. A little later, the good-looking Arnswaldt also made advances to Annette. When the writer addressed this, Arnswaldt turned away and presented his behavior as a test of Annette's loyalty to his friend Straube. There was a falling out. Both Straube and Arnswaldt broke off their friendship with the young Droste. Dismayed and ashamed, Annette withdrew from Bökendorf and did not enter the house again for twenty years. The event became a personal trauma. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff remained unmarried until her death in 1848. In 1830, Arnswaldt married a sister of the Haxthausen brothers, who had also taken an active part in the intrigue.

Arnswald became the Royal Hanoverian legation councilor, but soon gave up his post at the embassy in Paris. From then on he socialized with the intellectual greats who dominated the Kingdom of Hanover, such as the Brothers Grimm, and lived as a private scholar from his income as a feudal lord on Hardenbostel (district of Asendorf (Diepholz district)) and Hoya as well as the Mecklenburg estates Gustävel (today part of Kuhlen-Wendorf) and Beautiful location (district of Weitendorf (near Brüel)). His lifestyle was characterized by a Lutheran form of revivalism. In 1834 he was one of the co-founders of the Hanover Missionary Association. His publications were mainly theological in content and were partly published anonymously; German lay theology, on which he worked for years, remained a fragment and was only edited in 1972. However, he exerted great personal influence on Philipp Spitta (1801–1859) and Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803–1873).

Arnswaldt Collection:He expanded the extensive private library he had taken over from his father and created an extensive collection of Low German manuscripts, including large parts of the library of the Augustinian monastery of Nazareth in Geldern. This collection came to the Berlin State Library after Arnswaldt's death. Outsourced during World War II, it essentially returned in 1958. However, some pieces are still in Krakow due to outsourcing.

writings

Four writings by J. Ruisbroeck in Low German. Edited by A. v. Arnswaldt. With a preface by C. Ullmann. Hanover 1828.

Contributions to dowsing, 1818.

Carl Iwan Bodo Baron von Hodenberg (* 8th. September 1826 in Lilienthal; † 20. October 1907 in Hudemühlen) was a German diplomat and politician. As a writer he worked under the pseudonym Theophilus.

Origin: His parents were Wilhelm von Hodenberg (1786-1861) and his wife Luise von Zesterfleth (1794-1827), a daughter of the president of the Verden knighthood in Stade Christian Arnold von Zesterfleth (1750-1820). His father was Dr. iur. et phil., landscape director of the Principality of Lüneburg and historian.

Life: Hodenberg studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. In 1849 he became a civil servant in the Kingdom of Hanover. From 1855 he worked in the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Hanover and in 1857 became chargé d'affaires for the Hanseatic cities in Hamburg, and in 1860 ministerial resident at the court of King Wilhelm III. in The Hague, where he replaced Carl Alexander Wilhelm von Linsingen (1822–1872). In 1865 Hodenberg moved from The Hague back to Hanover, where he took over the office of Minister of Culture.

During his short term in office until the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover on 20. In September 1866 the Kingdom of Prussia introduced a new synodal constitution. Hodenberg initially followed King George V into exile in Paris and then returned to his property at Hudemühlen (near Hodenhagen), from where he became active as a writer. During his time in office in the Netherlands, he was already in contact with the revival movement and addressed the renewal of the churches in his writings. He took the standpoint of denominational Lutheranism and felt particularly close to the Marburg theology professor August Vilmar.

Politically, he was heavily involved in the German-Hannover Party and was a founder of the “Deutsche Volkszeitung” published by the DHP.

Family:He married in The Hague on the 5th. February 1862, Countess Cécile Alexandrine van Rechteren (* 18. October 1836; † 22. June 1864), a daughter of Count Jan Derk van Rechteren and Baroness Civile Susanne van Hardenbroeck. The couple had a son:

Hermann (* 27. January 1862; † 24. February 1946), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag

After the early death of his first wife, he married on the 27th. August 1868 in Dresden Therese von Arnswaldt (* 1. July 1836; † 10. May 1873), a daughter of the writer August von Arnswaldt. The couple had two sons:

Georg Marquard (* 18. April 1870)

Werner-Thomas Friedrich Hans Achaz (* 21. December 1871)

Fonts (selection)

Luther's Philosophy, Vol. 1: The logic. Carl Meyer Publishing House, Hanover 1870[4]

Rocholl's “History of the Protestant Church in Germany”. Wolff & Hohorst, Hanover 1897.

Erlangen theology. Frank and Seeberg. Wolff & Hohorst, Hanover 1899.

Luther's material principle to illuminate the question posed for the next Lutheran conference “Is the Holy Scripture the only source or only the only norm of faith?”: Hanover 1893.

Activities of the Guelphs. Jacob, Hanover 1887 (special print of the Deutsche Volkszeitung).

Who is the false teacher? Pastor Harms in Hermannsburg or his superintendent? Response to the sermon by Superintendent Münchmeyer in Bavaria, which was published in the Hannoversches Sonntagsblatte. 5. ed. Hanover 1878.

“The Banquet of Socrates”. A painting by Feuerbach as a reflection of the theology of rhetoric in the church movement of our time (Der Kunstbrief; Vol. 16). Mann Verlag, Berlin 1946 (reprint. d. Issue Edgar Bauer, Altona 1873).

Voltaire and Frederick II, Du Bois Raymond and Droysen. Not a contradiction but progress. Bauer, Altona 1871.