1. Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, known as Adele Schopenhauer, was a German author.
12 Facts About Adele Schopenhauer
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Adele Schopenhauer was the sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and daughter of author Johanna Schopenhauer.
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Adele Schopenhauer was born in Hamburg to Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, a businessman, and his wife Johanna.
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Adele Schopenhauer was highly gifted and engaged in literature and poetry.
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Adele Schopenhauer not only wrote fairy tales, poems, and novels, but was a talented papercut artist.
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Adele Schopenhauer was sociable and likable, but her love interests were unrequited, and she never married.
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Johanna and Adele Schopenhauer had deposited all the money they had inherited upon Heinrich Schopenhauer's death in 1805 in that bank, and thus lost a large part of their assets when the bank collapsed.
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Arthur Schopenhauer had wisely left only one-third of his assets in Muhl and was not willing to engage in a settlement with Muhl.
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Adele Schopenhauer was known to have called Goethe "father", and he praised her abilities.
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Adele Schopenhauer was able, in 1828, to persuade her mother Johanna to move to Bonn.
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In Bonn, Adele Schopenhauer was a close friend of Annette von Droste-Hulshoff and of Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen.
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Adele Schopenhauer's grave is located in the old cemetery in Bonn.