Her role as a writer of the Romantic period was overshadowed by her brother Ludwig[2] and her first husband, August Ferdinand Bernhardi.

This was not an oversight, as when Ludwig's daughter Dorothea Tieck also translated Shakespeare's other works her father forgot to credit her too.

[2] In 1799 Sophie married a fellow writer and translator, August Ferdinand Bernhardi, who had taught her brother.

[citation needed] Sophie went travelling with her brother Ludwig to Rome where she met the Baltic German Karl Gregor von Knorring from Reval, Estonia.

[4] Tieck married von Knorring in 1810 and converted to Catholicism on account of him, provoking considerable comment.

They lived in Heidelberg in 1820 and then in Estonia until she died in 1833 in Reval (Tallinn),[1] where she was buried in the now-destroyed Kopli Cemetery.