Career
In 1788, when Christiane was a young woman of Weimar, Goethe addressed to her the Römische Elegien, an epithalamium. Friedrich Schiller"s wife Charlotte von Lengefeld wrote of Goethe after Christiane"s death, "The poor man wept bitterly. lieutenant grieves me that he should shed tears for such objects."
Christiane, who is buried in the Jacobsfriedhof in Weimar, was the sister of Christian August Vulpius.
Christine Vulpius and Goethe had a son, Julius August Walther von Goethe (25 December 1789 – 28 October 1830), who became chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and died while on a visit to Rome.
She later cared for Goethe until he died in 1832. Julius August and Ottilie had three children: Walther Wolfgang, Freiherr von Goethe (9 April 1818 – 15 April 1885), known as a composer of operettas and songs.
Wolfgang Maximilian, Freiherr von Goethe (18 September 1820 – 20 January 1883), a jurist and poet. And Alma von Goethe (29 October 1827 – 29 September 1844).