Metta von Oberg
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Metta von Oberg (10 November 1737 Jersbek - October 25, 1794 Uetersen), German Baroness and close friend to Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg.
[edit] Life
Anna Metta von Oberg lived in the period from 1762 to 1794 in the monastery of Uetersen. There she met Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg. After they left the monastery, they lived together in a small apartment south of the monastery. Although Metta was 15 years the older, they were linked in a deep friendship. She also played a part in the heart of the friendship between Augusta Louise and the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Again and again she encouraged the young Augusta Louise in correspondence with the poet, unaware that both would feature in later literary history. Even after 1783, when Augusta Louise moved to Copenhagen and married the Danish Minister of State Peter Andreas Bernstorff, she remained at the side of her best friend. Metta von Oberg died at the age of 57 after years of illness in the monastery of Uetersen.
It is not clear today, that without Metta von Oberg of the lively exchange of letters between Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg and the poet Goethe would have been as valuable as it is.
[edit] Sources
- Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: Versuch einer Chronik der Stadt und des Klosters Uetersen. Band 2 Page 35-37 (1938) (de)
- Plath-Langheinrich, Elsa: Als Goethe nach Uetersen schrieb: Das Leben der Conventualin Augusta Louise Gräfin zu Stolberg-Stolberg. ISBN 3529026956 (de)
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oberg, Metta von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oberg, Anna Metta von |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German Baroness |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10 November 1737 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersbek |
| DATE OF DEATH | 25 October 1794 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Uetersen |
