Johanna Schopenhauer
Johanna Schopenhauer (1766-1838) was born in Danzig (Gdansk). She became an author and wrote about her life in her native city. After the annexation of her city by Prussia in 1793, she and her husband moved to Hamburg. Following her husband's death in 1807 she moved to Weimar and belonged to the literary circle surrounding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johanna is most famous as the mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who had a troubled relationship with her.