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Toni" was an AUTHOR.
After the untimely death of her parents, she came on March 18, 1848 toJudicial Council Crone's family who lived first in Rheine and later inMuenster.
First, she attended Elementary school. Then she received her furthereducation in the "Ursulines' Institute" in St. Leonhard in Aachen.
In Muenster, she found various stimuli through long-time relationshipwith the bright and blind Professor Schlueter. He was the friend andgreat expert of Annette von Droste.
With her foster parents respectively her widowed foster mother, andthen after the latter's death alone, Antonie repeatedly traveled toSwitzerland, "Tirol" (Austria), "Oberbayern" (Germany), "Thueringen"(Germany) and Italy.
She repeatedly stayed for a longer period of time in Rome.
On these journeys, she found numerous stimuli for the comprehensiveliterary works.
Besides a lot of occasional poems, she wrote a series of bigger poemsor stories in prose.
All of her works stand out because of the perfect language and deep,moral and noble contents.
To mention only a few of her works:
"Konradin der Staufe" (epos) in several editions, her first greaterwork, "Der Tod Baldurs" (Baldur's death (epos); "Der Glocken Romfahrt"(The Bells' Journey to Rome" (prose); "Unter'm Krummstab" (Under theCrook) (epos); different novellas, as well as several volumes ofcollected poems (lyric-epic); "Roma Aeterna" - Atmospheric pictures ofRome, etc.
ON her second Rome journey in the spring of 1899, she had the honor ofbeing allowed to personally hand over a copy of the last mentionedbook to the Holy Father Leo XIII. in a private audience.
Her last greater work which appeared shortly before her death was "Wasdie Lagune Birgt" (What is Hidden in the Lagoon), pictures Venice'shistory.
After her foster mother's death in 1894, "Toni" Juengst started (inaddition to her literary works) to work for the "KatholischerFrauenbund" (Association of Catholic Women) and in the charitablefield (welfare), where she worked in a central position.
Beginning December 1817, Antonie Juengst had a stroke which confinedher to a sick-bed. After a temporary improvement, another stroke put apeaceful end to her agonizing infirmity on June 08, 1818, only a fewdays before her 75th birthday. She died in Muenster i.w. and wasburied there on the Central Cemetery next to her foster mother.
Werne, her native town, had given her the "Freedom of the City" andhad also given her name to a street.