Barbara Schulthess, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Barbara Schulthess

Swiss author

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1745

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1818

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Barbara Schulthess (1745 - 1818), was a Swiss Salonnière.
From 1772 onward, she hosted a literary salon in Zürich, which came to be regarded as the intellectual center of contemporary Zürich.
She is known as the friend and correspondent of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
She was the daughter of a silk trader and married the silk trader Hauptmann David Schulthess (d.
1778) in 1763.