The daughter of the doctor Friedrich Wilhelm Weise, after her father's death in 1798 she moved to live with an uncle with
Hamburg, until her mother remarried in 1802 to the Hamburg businessman Johann Georg Burmeister. Schoppe showed talent in her youth above all for languages and medicine. In 1814 she married F. H. Schoppe, later to become a lawyer, and they had three sons before his early death in 1829. After her husband's death she provided for her family by her prolific writing, as well as occasionally running a girls' reformatory alongside
Fanny Tarnow. Her friends included
Rosa Maria Assing,
Justinus Kerner and
Adelbert von Chamisso, along with the young poet
Friedrich Hebbel, whom she introduced to patrons and allowed to use her study. From 1827 to 1846 she edited the
Pariser Modeblätter as well writing literary articles for it. She also wrote for several other magazines and from 1831 to 1839 edited the young peoples' magazine
Iduna. From 1842 to 1845 she lived in
Jena, before moving back to Hamburg and finally in 1851 to the
United States of America with her son, where she died aged 66 in
Schenectady, New York == Selected works ==