 Considered to be one of the most accomplished women of Germany of her time, her numerous works gained her a high degree of celebrity.Caroline Philippine von Briest was born in Nennhausen in 1773 (1775 is also mentioned).She grew up at the Nennhausen estate which belonged to her father, Philipp Friedrich August Wilhelm von Briest (1749–1822), who had served in the Prussian Army.