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German novelist
Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhemine von Ahlefeld
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Born
| Charlotte von Seebach
6 December 1781
Ottmannshausen, Germany
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Died
| 27 July 1849
Teplitz, Bohemia
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Nationality
| German
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Known for
| writing novels
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Spouse
| Johann Ritter von Ahlefeld
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Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhelmine von Ahlefeld
(December 6, 1781 ? July 27, 1849) was a German
novelist
.
Von Ahlefeld was born in
Ottmannshausen
, near
Erfurt
[
where?
]
, as
Charlotte von Seebach
, to a noble family of
Hanover
. She began to write at a young age, with her first novel appearing in 1797,
[1]
and attracted positive comments from
Goethe
. She married Johann Ritter von Ahlefeld, a landowner from
Schleswig
, on May 21, 1798. They separated in 1807, but she continued to live in Schleswig until 1821, when she moved to
Weimar
and befriended
Charlotte von Stein
. In 1846 she went to the
spa town
of
Teplitz
in
Bohemia
due to declining health, and died there in 1849. She wrote some of her novels under the pen name
Elise Selbig
, and some poetry under the name
Natalia
.
Selected novels
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- Liebe und Trennung
(1797)
- Marie Muller
(1799)
- Erna
(1820)
- Felicitas
(1826)
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