A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Brentano, Sophia

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BRENTANO, SOPHIA,

(Her maiden name was Schubart,) was born in the year 1770, at Altenburg. She married, when quite a young girl, F. E. K. Thereau, professor at the University of Jena; in 1804, she was divorced from him, and married, in 1805, the author Clem. Brentano, with whom she lived in Frankfort, and afterwards in Heidelberg, where she died In 1806. As a poetess, she evinced a lively and highly cultivated imagination, great harmony in versification, combined with a high polish in her compositions. She published two volumes of poetry, at Berlin, 1800, "Amanda and Edward," at Frankfort, 1803, Spanish and Italian novelettes, in 1804, and various other minor tales.