Christine Touaillon

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Christine Touaillon , née Auspitz, (born February 27, 1878 in Iglau (Jihlava) , Austria-Hungary , † April 15, 1928 in Graz ), was an Austrian literary historian , writer and feminist .

Live and act

Touaillon was born as the daughter of the Imperial and Royal Major General and writer Leopold Auspitz (1838–1907) and his wife Henriette Eggenberg (* around 1846, † 1895). Her brother was the Austro-Hungarian officer and genealogist Walther Ernst von Auspitz (1888–1974), who from 1920 took the name of his great-great-grandmother, a Conrad von Heydendorff (also: Auspitz-Heydendorff).

After Touaillon had graduated from elementary school and community school in St. Pölten , she began training at the secondary school for girls in Vienna. At that time, her 49-year-old mother died and her brother was only seven years old. Nevertheless, she was allowed to train as an elementary school teacher at the teacher training institute of the kuk civil girls' boarding school and in 1897 acquired the license to teach at public elementary schools. Your childhood dream, literature study, she was able to realize because in the same year by a regulation of the cult US and Ministry of Education was partially allowed the university women's access. In the winter semester of 1897/1898 she enrolled as an extraordinary student alongside her teaching activities. At the same time, she took private lessons to catch up on her high school studies. In the summer of 1902 she graduated from the State High School in Salzburg and became a regular student in the fall.

In 1904 she married the notary Heinrich Touaillon, the marriage remained childless. At her new place of residence in Vorau , in Styria , she edited the magazine "Neues Frauenleben" (1902–1918) together with Leopoldine Kulka , Auguste Fickert and Emil Fickert . In the magazine she published reviews , for example on the works of the writer Elisabeth Siewert . In 1905 she did her doctorate with Jakob Minor in Vienna on Zacharias Werner's "Attila King of the Huns" . At that time she dealt with contemporary literature of the time , with the history of German children's literature and wrote articles for other magazines.

After moving to Stainz , she began to work on the first complete presentation of the German women's novel of the 18th century in the autumn of 1910 , and sixteen German libraries made books available to her. Around the time of printing with the end of World War I to realize in 1918, they needed a publisher . She found this in Wilhelm Braumüller , but there was no paper available for the 664-page book. The Graz paper factory was finally ready to sell its 2000 kilograms of paper in exchange for 300 kilograms of pigs . Rosa Mayreder noted in her diary on March 19, 1918: "With the help of befriended farmers, she will be able to publish the book on the appearance of which her lectureship at Graz University depends." Braumüller published her work in 1919. Am On July 11th of the year she presented the book to the philosophical faculty in Graz as a habilitation thesis . There the process was deliberately delayed and the competence of a woman was questioned: "The college has strong concerns about whether women are even able to target young men between the ages of 18 and 25, in whom certain specifically male characteristics are most prominent So far, one has not dared to let women teach high school students in the upper classes. Whether this will be profitable for university students, if at all possible, is to be regarded as quite questionable. The second consideration must be all the more important the established knowledge of the subject is emphasized over and above the usual requirements. " A commission from the Faculty of Philosophy in Graz stipulated in the enforcement order of September 20, 1920 that the requirements for female habilitation applicants should be set significantly higher than for male applicants. In October 1920 she withdrew her application and submitted her application in Vienna. She completed her habilitation on July 10, 1921 as the second female academic teacher at the University of Vienna . From now on she was a private lecturer in German literature and gave lectures for the Volksheim association in Vienna and at Urania in Graz .

She wrote books on the side, was a board member of the Ethical Society and the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom , the General Austrian Women's Association and the Association of Academic Women in Austria.

In the spring of 1928 she fell ill and was admitted to the psychiatric department of the "lunatic asylum Am Feldhof" in Straßgang as suffering from " climacteric " . However, the autopsy revealed an inflammation of the inner wall of the heart , which resulted in hypertrophy of the heart and embolism in the brain .

In 2012, Christine-Touaillon-Strasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

Publications

literature

  • Rainer Leitner: I. Christine Touaillon, 1878–1928. Scholar and Feminist. Attempt of a portrait, undr. Phil. Dipl., Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Faculty of Humanities 1992 II. Book contribution in: Alois Kernbauer, Karin Schmidlechner-Lienhart: Women's studies and women's careers at the University of Graz (= publications from the archives of the University of Graz. Volume 33), academic Pressure u. Publishing House 1996, ISBN 3-2010-1660-8 , pp. 210–247
  • Hanna Schnedl-Bubenicek: Scientist on a detour - Christine Touaillon née Auspitz (1878–1928). Attempt to approach. In: Erika Weinzierl, Rudolf G. Ardelt, Wolfgang Huber (DDr.), Anton Staudinger: Suppression and Emancipation: Festschrift for Erika Weinzierl on her 60th birthday, Geyer edition 1985, ISBN 3-8509-0119-X , p. 69ff
  • Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1896-1897.
  • Elisabeth Lebensaft: Touaillon, Christine. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 757-759.

Web links

Wikisource: Christine Touaillon  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Weinzierl, Rudolf G. Ardelt, Wolfgang Huber (DDr.), Anton Staudinger: Suppression and Emancipation: Festschrift for Erika Weinzierl on her 60th birthday, Geyer edition 1985, ISBN 3-8509-0119-X , p. 69ff
  2. ^ Christine Touaillon: Elisabeth Siewert . In: Neues Frauenleben, 16th year, No. 1/2, Vienna 1914, pp. 41–46. ( Full text at ALO = Austrian Literature Online .)
  3. ↑ Alois Kernbauer, Karin Schmidlechner-Lienhart: Women's studies and women's careers at the University of Graz (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz, Volume 33), Academic Print and Publishing House 1996, ISBN 3-2010-1660-8 , p. 214
  4. ↑ Alois Kernbauer, Karin Schmidlechner-Lienhart: Women's studies and women's careers at the University of Graz (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz, Volume 33), Academic Print and Publishing House 1996, ISBN 3-2010-1660-8 , p. 219
  5. ↑ Alois Kernbauer, Karin Schmidlechner-Lienhart: Women's studies and women's careers at the University of Graz (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz, Volume 33), Academic Print and Publishing House 1996, ISBN 3-2010-1660-8 , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Touaillon, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auspitz, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary historian, writer and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau (Jihlava)
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1928
Place of death Graz