Background
The daughter of the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Weise, after her father"s death in 1798 she moved to live with an uncle with Hamburg, until her mother remarried in 1802 to the Hamburg businessman Johann Georg Burmeister.
The daughter of the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Weise, after her father"s death in 1798 she moved to live with an uncle with Hamburg, until her mother remarried in 1802 to the Hamburg businessman Johann Georg Burmeister.
She was also known by her pseudonyms Adalbert von Schonen, Amalia and Marie. She is most notable as the author of books for children and young people, with an oeuvre totaling 200 volumes. The Amalie-Schoppe-Weg in the Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord district of Hamburg and the Amalie-Schoppe-Straße in Burg auf Fehmarn are named after her.
Schoppe showed talent in her youth above all for languages and medicine.
After her husband"s death she provided for her family by her prolific writing, as well as occasionally running a girls" reformatory alongside Fanny Tarnow. From 1827 to 1846 she edited the Pariser Modeblätter as well writing literary articles for lieutenant
She also wrote for several other magazines and from 1831 to 1839 edited the young peoples" magazine Iduna.