Luise Gramm

Luise Gramm Biography

Frederikke Luise Gramm (1746-1824), was a Danish Countess and letter writer.

Life

She was born to Count Kristian Ditlev Reventlow and Johanne Sofie Frederikke Bothmer and married the courtier nobleman Kristian Frederik von Gramm (d. 1768) in 1761. In 1776, she remarried Count Kristian Stolberg.

The social position of her first spouse made her a participator in Danish court life. She was one of the few people queen Caroline Matilda befriended prior to the banishment of her favorite Louise von Plessen. Reportedly, Gramm acted as a form of channel between the queen in her isolation with Louise von Plessen, and the other female courtiers: she informed the queen what the women of the court said about her, and then informed the women of the court what the queen said about them, which for a time gave her an influential position until her method was discovered. For a time, she and her spouse were regarded as important people because of her favor with the queen.

In 1768, she became a widow and retired for a year of morning. When she returned, she lost her favor with the queen because of her dislike of the queen's circle of friends, Elisabet von Eyben, Anna Sofie Blow, Johanne Marie Malleville and Christine Sophie von Ghler, whom she considered immoral, and because of her refusal to participate in the queens attempt to have the king's favorite Conrad Holck exiled. She retired from court life in 1771.

Her preserved correspondence is regarded as a valuable historic source about the courtiers of the Danish royal court of her time.

Luise Gramm

Luise Gramm Biography

Life

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