A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Wolf, Arnoldina
WOLF, ARNOLDINA,
A native of Cassel, in Germany, was born in 1769. Her father was an officer in the Hessian government; but he died while she was quite young. When she was about eighteen, she was attacked by a very painful disease, which prevented her from sleeping for nearly twenty-six weeks. She alleviated her sufferings by repeating and composing poetry. The poems she composed while in this state were published in 1788. At length she fell into an apparent state of insensibility, in which she hardly seemed to live; but she could hear, and was conscious of a great dread lest she should be buried alive. In four weeks she began to recover, and in time regained her health. She married, in 1791, Mr. Wolf, by whom she had nine children. She died, in 1820, at Smalcalden. Her poems and an account of her illness, were published by Dr. Wiss.