[1][2][3][4][5][6] Maria Johanna Katharina Erika Elisabeth von Aachen was born in Vechta, a mid-sized strongly Catholic town in the flatlands between Osnabrück and Bremen.
[7] Her father, Majors Lewin Friedrich von Ambotten, served the archbishops of Münster.
[2] In 1777, she married Captain Klemens August von Aachen (1756-1808),[9] a career soldier in the Prussian Army and, like herself, a writer.
[2] She became a strong supporter of the newspaper producer and anthologist Friedrich Raßmann,[2] and was a member of the literary circle around Elisa von Ahlefeldt and Elise Rüdiger.
[2] Maria Johanna von Aachen passed away in Münster on 21 January 1845, having spent more than the final three decades of her life as a widow.