Luise Gramm


Frederikke Luise Gramm was a Danish Countess, salon hostess and letter writer.

Biography

She was born to Count Kristian Ditlev Reventlow and Johanne Sofie Frederikke Bothmer. In 1761, she married the courtier nobleman Kristian Frederik von Gramm who died in 1768.
The social position of her first spouse made her a participator in Danish Royal Court life. She was one of the few people Queen Caroline Matilda befriended prior to the banishment of her favorite Louise von Plessen. Reportedly, Gramm acted as a form of channel between the queen in her isolation with Louise von Plessen, and the other female courtiers: she informed the queen what the women of the court said about her, and then informed the women of the court what the queen said about them, which for a time gave her an influential position until her method was discovered. For a time, she and her spouse were regarded as important people because of her favor with the queen.
In 1768, she became a widow and retired for a year of mourning. When she returned, she lost her favor with the queen because of her dislike of the queen's circle of friends, Elisabet von Eyben, Anna Sofie Bülow, Johanne Marie Malleville and Christine Sophie von Gähler, whom she considered immoral, and because of her refusal to participate in the queen's attempt to have the king's favorite Conrad Holck exiled.
She retired from court life in 1771. In 1776, she remarried Count Cristian Günther Stolberg. In 1777, Stolberg later became county governor of Tremsbüttel in Holstein.
Her preserved correspondence is regarded as a valuable historic source about the courtiers of the Danish royal court of her time.