| Surname | Forster | |
| First Name | Therese | |
| Gender | female | |
| Place of birth | Wilna (Litauen) | |
| Place of death | ||
| Year of birth | 1786 | |
| Year of death | 1862 | |
| Profession | ||
| Religion | unkown | |
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| Century | 19 | |
| Biographical information | Daughter of the professor and South Sea explorer Georg Forster (who died in 1794). Therese Forster remained unmarried. | |
| Title | (a) Souvenirs. Commencé en 1804 | |
| Genre / Art |
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| Period writen | 1804 to 1815 | |
| Period covered | 1804 to 1815 | |
| Format / Language | Autograph, French and German | |
| Physical description | Loose sheets and layers, various formats, about 300-400 pages. |
| Content | Private diary, conducted over a long period of time. Forster starts writing on her 18th birthday, beginning with a kind of retrospective look at her life so far. She writes about her reading, deaths, her children, correspondence and personal considerations, all in a sensitive language. The Burgerbibliothek has many other self-testimonies of Therese Forster, such as diaries for the years 1816 and 1825 (FA of Gruyeres 102 and 103). |
| Place of deposit | BBB (Bern) |
| Classification | FA von Greyerz 104 (1) und 104 (2) |
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| Secondary litterature |
Gresky, Wolfgang. Besuch im Burgdorfer Pfarrhaus 1844. In: Burgdorfer Jahrbuch 55 (1988), S. 125-132. |
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| Author | Basel |
