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About Charlotte Buff
Charlotte Sophie Henriette Kestner was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her. She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court. The character of Charlotte, in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, is partly based on her. Their relationship was characterized by heartiness and lack of constraint. Goethe bought the wedding rings for her and Kestner, in Frankfurt am Main. Charlotte and Kestner had four daughters and eight sons, among them August Kestner.
Everything about Charlotte Buff →- Occupation
- writer, homemaker
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia, Germany
- Born
- January 11, 1753, 1753
- Died
- January 16, 1828, 1828