Eva König
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Eva König | |
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| Born | 22nd March 1736 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Died | 10th January 1778 (aged 51) Wolfenbüttel, Germany |
Eva König (22nd March 1736 - 10th January 1778) was a German Women letter writer. [1]
In 1756, she got married to the Hamburg Businessman Engelbert König with whom she had 4 children : Maria Amalie Henneberg, Theodor, Engelbert, and Fritz .[2]
In 1767, she became friends with the playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, godfather to her son Fritz who looked after her when her husband died in 1769.[3]
A few years later, in 1771 they became engaged, though circumstances did not favour a timely marriage. In fact, due to matters related to König's estate, Eva was obliged to make several visits to Vienna over a lengthy period. She also had to accompany the young Prince Leopold of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, a future Prussian general, to Italy in 1775. As a result, the couple's mode of contact during their engagement was through written correspondence, most of which has survived. In 1776 they were finally married in Jork, a town near Hamburg. Eva Lessing then moved to Wolfenbüttel with her husband where she died at the age of 41 in 1778, of neonatal sepsis soon after the birth of their son Traugott Lessing.
She was buried at Bürger Friedhof hinter der Trinitatiskirche, in Wolfenbüttel, Landkreis Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany.
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References
- ^ "Eva Catharina Lessing". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ "Eva Catharina Lessing". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ "Engelbert König". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2022-05-10.