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On 13 July 1788, the 39-year-old Goethe met the 23-year-old Vulpius in the Park an der Ilm, where she handed him a petition on behalf of her brother Christian August. Goethe later advocated several times for his future brother-in-law. That summer, Goethe and Vulpius began a passionate love affair.
In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpius (1765–1816), having lived with her for eighteen years; they had one surviving son, August (1789–1830). Goethe died in 1832. DAVID LUKE was an Emeritus Student (Emeritus Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.
Summary. W hy did goethe marry Christiane Vulpius, his companion of eighteen years, on 19 October 1806, five days after Napoleon's victory over Prussia at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt?
- Christiane Vulpius’ Family Background
- When Goethe Met Christiane
- From Concubinage to Real Marriage
- The Misinterpretation of Goethe’s Relation to Christiane
Christiane Vulpius came from a poor family. Her father Johann Friedrich Vulpius, official archivist in Weimar, i.e. file copyist, had studied law for several semesters, but discontinued his studies. His job was badly paid, the family lived in very precarious conditions, especially since his father did everything to make it possible for his eldest s...
Christiane was the one woman that should change the life of the most prominent writer of his age to become his wife and the mother of his children. And they should only meet by chance. Christiane Vulpius was a comely damsel of 23 years when Goethe met her, with golden curling locks, rosy cheeks, laughing eyes and a neatly rounded figure. She met Go...
Goethe took the young woman into his house together with her half-sister Ernestine and her aunt Juliane; the two women’s sphere of influence was completely limited to the house and garden. The Weimar court and society rejected the illegitimate and improper connection, so that Goethe, on the advice of the duke, had to leave the house at the Frauenpl...
Nothing in Goethe’s life has been so misunderstood and misrepresented as his relations with Christiane Vulpius. She was always treated as a wife, and very much better than most wives, the two being united by bonds more indissoluble than those of the church. Christiane was from a much lower rank in society; but she understood Goethe’s nature as no o...
It is curious that aside from Kunhold and Ludecus none of Goethe’s contemporaries nor any biographer mentions the role played in Goethe’s decision by Augereau (with two minor exceptions, one in 1917 and the other in 1926).29 Goethe, apparently, never mentioned it either.
- Peter J Schwartz
Goethe's life, his sensual and aesthetic awakening in Italy and the beginning of his relationship with Christiane Vulpius. The thirteen years covered by volume two, Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803), are dominated by external events: the French Revolution, Kant's reorientation of philosophy, and the flowering of European Romanticism.
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Jun 6, 2016 · Goethe had once inspected the factory, and had helped the Vulpius family before, but had never met Christiane. Soon after their first encounter – perhaps on the same day, precise facts and dates are uncertain – the two began a sexual liaison.
