You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search. If there was more to it than that, and the duke would have been in the know, nobody let on. She was now free to marry Schelling, who in joined the great exodus from Jena, that saw him, Paulus, both Hufelands and others move to universities elsewhere. His name would be linked by some with the actress Madame Unzelmann or with Elisabeth Wilhelmine Minna van Nuys, but we need not attach too much to such rumours.
As for Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi, she was now seeking comfort with Karl Gregor von Knorring, ever willing however to receive monetary assistance from Schlegel. At the end of , she began her flight from Berlin and Bernhardi, into scandal and divorce. She would meet up with Schlegel again in , in Rome, finding her way there through monies flowing into the voracious Tieck exchequer.
Ludwig, ensconced in farthest Ziebingen beyond the Oder, wrote almost no letters to his friend Schlegel, tried the patience of several publishers to whom he never delivered , and took a countess as a mistress. Both did what they could for their sister, and both were agreed that their brother-in-law Bernhardi was a brute, a beast and a monster 2 and that Sophie was right in fleeing him with her childrenβto Weimar, to Munich, and finally to Rome.
To be fair: Sophie undoubtedly suffered from bad health and had good reasons for moving to a warmer climate. She was also trying to revive her career as a writer, which with the demands of two small children and ill-health was not easy.
One can understand the persistence with which she pressed Schlegel and others to find a publisher for her drama Egidio und Isabella. Schlegel, otherwise ever tidy with his finances, was for most of these years in debt. He needed to be in Paris to consult the Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts on which he was working, but he could not afford to live there for any length of time. She entrusted to him in fact to Dorothea the German translation of her novel Corinne.
