Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.
Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. After links have been created, remove this message.
This article has been tagged since October 2006.

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695-1760) was a German poet and writer.

[edit] Biography

Ziegler was born in Leipzig. As a widow in the 1730s Ziegler turned her family home into a literary and musical salon. Johann Christoph Gottschedencouraged her poetic activity, and Ziegler became the first woman member of Gottsched's literary society, the Deutsche Gesellschaft. Johann Sebastian Bach set some of Ziegler's poetry to music.

[edit] Works

  • Vermischte Schriften in gebundener und ungebunder Rede [Miscellaneous writings in verse and prose] (1739)

[edit] Further reading

  • Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature


 This article about a poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Germany  This article about a German writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../c/h/r/Christiana_Mariana_von_Ziegler_b7d1.html"