Charlotte Pistorius

Charlotte Pistorius (5 November 1777 – 14 September 1850) who was an administrative assistant to her sick father. After the death of her father-in-law in 1798, her brother-in-law Christian Pistorius (1765–1823) moved in with the young couple. Since 1807 her husband had suffered from a lung disease, from which he died in 1823. The marriage had remained childless. Her brother-in-law died the same year, leaving her alone in the vicarage. From 1825 to 1826 she kept the household of the widowed professor Karl Schildener in Greifswald, but then returned to Garz. She devoted herself to charitable causes, such as further education for the lower classes of the population. In 1833 she took in her brother-in-law Karl Pistorius and cared for him until his death in 1844. discussing subjects such as literature - including the works of the author Novalis - and religion. She was friends with Charlotte von Kathen, who had already been in correspondence with Arndt and Schleiermacher. Through , the mayor of Stralsund, she was inspired to conduct her own studies on the history of Rügen. She sent essays and drawings to the , which were partly used in the . In addition she wrote a biography of her father. She left a collection of unpublished poems and poetry drafts.