Karoline Schelling

Caroline Schelling, née Michaelis, widowed Böhmer, divorced Schlegel (2 September 1763 – 7 September 1809), was a noted German intellectual. She was one of the so-called Universitätsmamsellen, a group of five academically active women during the 18th and 19th centuries, daughters of academics at Göttingen University, alongside Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, Therese Huber, Philippine Engelhard, and Dorothea Schlözer.

She was born at Göttingen in, the daughter of the orientalist Johann David Michaelis. Her father taught at the progressive University of Göttingen. His daughter was educated by private tutors and himself.In 1784 she married a district medical officer Johann Böhmer, and the couple moved to Clausthal in the Harz. After his death, in 1788 she tried to live financially independent. Together with their only surviving daughter she moved to Göttingen, then Marburg, and 1792 settled in Mainz.

In Mainz Schelling became of a members of the intellectual circle around Georg Forster, who had married her childhood friend Therese Huber. Forster was a explorer, journalist and revolutionary. When Mainz was occupied by the French revolutionary army during the French Revolutionary Wars, she moved into his house. Mainz was declared a republic, aligned with France (see Republic of Mainz). But Prussian troops recaptured Mains, and in account of her political opinions she was imprisonment. In light of her pregnancy from a liaison Schelling asked friends and family for help. She was released and August Wilhelm Schlegel arranged for her to give birth under an assumed name in Lucka near Leipzig.

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