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Antonia of Württemberg

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at Basel that Antonia, "having been well grounded in the Hebrew language and in reading the Hebrew Bible, desires to learn also the art of reading without vowels," and three years later he wrote to Buxtorf that she had made such progress that she had "with her own hand put vowels to the greatest part
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in Germany, and royal and noble families included it sometimes even in the curriculum of their daughters' education. In the seventeenth century many German women attained to quite a considerable knowledge of Hebrew. Antonia of Württemberg has become one of the best known. She acquired a remarkable
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Philipp Jacob Spener, another pupil of Buxtorf, during his temporary stay at Heidelberg, was on friendly terms with the princess, and they studied Kabbalah together. Buxtorf himself presented her with a copy of each of his books. There is a manuscript extant in the Royal Library of Stuttgart,
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in 1634. Antonia made it her mission to establish foundations to repair and restore the churches. Her charity, piety, gift for languages and all-encompassing scholarship were widely praised, and she became celebrated as "Princess Antonia the learned", and "the
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at Bad Teinach stands over six metres tall and five metres wide, dominating the area to the right of the altar in the small church. Planned in 1652 by the princess with a circle of court academic advisors, it was executed in 1659-1663 by
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The central panel finds a woman holding in her right hand a flaming heart (charity), with in her left an anchor (faith) and a cross (hope), standing at the threshold of a garden enclosed by a hedge of
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Beyond them hovers a female figure, in front of a richly decorated temple with an onion dome. Arranged in the composition on and around the temple are nine female figures representing the
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designed and commissioned by Princess Antonia and her academic teachers in 1652, installed in 1673 in the small town church of Holy Trinity at
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During the course of the war many churches in Württemberg were looted and became stripped of their ornaments, especially following the
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of Württemberg". Wherever possible she dedicated herself to the arts and sciences, together with her two sisters the princesses
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The painting is in the form of a triptych. The two outside panels depict the procession of the soul as the mystical
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mastery of Hebrew; and according to contemporary evidence was also well versed in rabbinic and Kabbalistic lore.
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Jüdische Kabbala und christlicher Glaube: Die Lehrtafel der Prinzessin Antonia zu Württemberg in Bad Teinach
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Jüdische Kabbala und christlicher Glaube. Die Lehrtafel der Prinzessin Antonia zu Württemberg in Bad Teinach
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An increased interest in the Hebrew language among Christian scholars was one of the effects of the
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She became a close associate of the evangelical Protestant theologian and mystical symbolist
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The Representation of Women in Religious Art and Imagery: Discontinuities in Female Virtues
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Princess of the Duchy of Württemberg, literary figure, patroness, and Christian Kabbalist
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The soul stands at the threshold of the garden of paradise, depicted in a dense web of
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Licht vom unerschaffnen Lichte. Die kabbalistische Lehrtafel der Prinzessin Antonia.
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in 1613, Princess Antonia was the third of nine children from the marriage of Duke
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is named after Antonia of Württemberg and works in the tradition of her Lehrtafel
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Gender in transition: discourse and practice in German-speaking Europe, 1750-1830
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Princess Antonia died in 1679, having never married. Her body was buried in the
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Esenwein, dean of Urach and later professor at Tübingen, wrote in July 1649 to
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of this tradition found its culmination in the unique large Kabbalistic
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Freemason Lodge Princess Antonia No. 118 for Men and Women in London
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Freiburger Rundbrief. Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung
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in the wall of Trinity Church in Bad Teinach, behind her painting.
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has an extensive bibliography of works in German. In particular:
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which is supposed to have been written by Antonia. It contains
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The triptych in its closed state. (Bridal procession of the
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The kabbalistic-alchemical altarpiece in Bad Teinach
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Stuttgart
Germany
Bad Liebenzell
Noble family
House of Württemberg
John Frederick of Württemberg
Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg
Duchy of Württemberg
patroness
Christian Kabbalist
Stuttgart
Johann Frederick of Württemberg
Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg
Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg
Eberhard III of Württemberg
Thirty Years War
battle of Nördlingen
Minerva
Anna Johanna
Sibylle

Shulamite
Song of Songs

esoteric
Johann Valentin Andreae
Pietism
Philip Jacob Spener
Hebrew

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