Maria von wedemeyer biography of william shakespeare

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Wedemeyer, Maria von (c. –)

German-born mathematician who was the fiancée of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Name variations: Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller.

Few twentieth-century theologians have had a bigger impact than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who lived his faith and died at the hands of the Nazis.

But what about Bonhoeffer's engagement, at the age of 36, to Maria von Wedemeyer, who was 20 years his junior and the first “girlfriend” he'd.
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— Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Maria von Wedemeyer in a letter from Tegel prison (1943) O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the Nazis.
Born in Germany around ; died of cancer on November 16, , in Boston, Massachusetts; studied math at the University of Göttingen in Germany; Bryn Mawr, M.A., ; married Paul Schniewind, in (divorced c. ); married Barton Weller, in (divorced ); children: (first marriage) Christopher; Paul; (stepdaughter) Sue M.

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Born around , the daughter of German aristocrats, Maria von Wedemeyer was in her early teens when she first met German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, while attending confirmation classes he was giving. By the time they met again during World War II, Wedemeyer's father and brother had died fighting on the Russian front, and Bonhoeffer was a confirmed opponent of the Third Reich, forbidden by the Nazis from speaking in public and secretly using his job in German military intelligence to help the resistance.

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