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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.
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She was the daughter of a silk trader and married the silk trader Hauptmann David Schulthess (d. 1778) in 1763.
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edit- Bernhard Suphan: Goethe und Barbara Schulthess. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt 1892