Charlotte Buff was known to be a love interest of Goethe, whom she rejected to marry the diplomat and art collector Johann Christian Kestner. She mirrors in the central character Lotte of the masterpiece "The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787...

" of Goethe, in which this extended certain moments of suffering in his relationship to her. Her encounter with the poet was characterized by heartiness and unconstraint; Goethe bought the wedding rings for her and Kestner, in Frankfurt am Main. Charlotte Kestner bore her husband four daughters and eight sons, among them August Kestner

August Kestner

Georg Christian August Kestner was a German diplomat and art collector.-Life:Kestner was the son of civil servant Johann Christian Kestner and his wife Charlotte Buff. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe met and fell in love with Charlotte while she was engaged to Johann...

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