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Ulrike von Levetzow

German aristocrat and Goethe's lover (1804–1899)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Theodore Ulrike Sophie von Levetzow, known as Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow, was a friend and the last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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The public source identifies “Ulrike von Levetzow” as german aristocrat and Goethe's lover (1804–1899). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ulrike, Levetzow and German.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 23-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ulrike, Levetzow and German providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ulrike von Levetzow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.