Metta von Oberg

Anna Metta von Oberg (November 10, 1737 – October 25, 1794) was a German Baroness and close friend to Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg.

She also played a part in the heart of the friendship between Augusta Louise and the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Again and again she encouraged the young Augusta Louise in correspondence with the poet, unaware that both would feature in later literary history.

Even after 1783, when Augusta Louise moved to Copenhagen and married the Danish Minister of State Peter Andreas Bernstorff, she remained at the side of her best friend.

It is thought that without Metta von Oberg, the lively exchange of letters between Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg and the poet Goethe would not have been as valuable as it is.