Charlotte Buff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Acquaintance of Goethe
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Place of Birth: Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
About Charlotte Buff
- Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her.
- She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner, vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court.
- The character of Lotte, in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, is partly based on her.
- Their relationship was characterized by heartiness and lack of constraint.
- Goethe bought the wedding rings for her and Kestner, in Frankfurt am Main.
- Charlotte and Kestner had four daughters and eight sons, among them August Kestner.
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