Amalie Baader

Amalie Baader

Amalie Baader (born March 15, 1806 in Wertheim , † October 15, 1877 in Karlsruhe ) was a German writer and co-founder of the St. Vincentius Association, the forerunner of today's St. Vincentius Clinics . She also published under the pseudonym H. Sales .

Life

Baader was born as the daughter of a judiciary in Wertheim. In 1823 she married Bernhard Baader , a civil servant who worked in Wertheim and who went to Constance as a district councilor for the district government of the Seekreis . In 1832 the family moved to Karlsruhe, where Bernhard Baader worked as a finance advisor. Amalie Baader began to write here. At first she dealt with linguistics and like her husband with collecting German folk tales and from 1845 worked as a journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , published in Freiburg . Among other things, she wrote political, religious and historical articles for the newspaper, but also wrote works of fiction. Appeared in 1865Winter garden , which - so the subtitle - contained " stories from family and life".

Baader supported the poor and the sick throughout his life. On January 29, 1851, she co-founded the first Catholic St. Vincentius Association in Baden , which she headed until shortly before her death. The association, which still exists today, was dedicated to caring for needy and sick people. On January 1, 1854, at Baader's instigation, the association opened the first St. Vincentius House in Karlsruhe as an association and hospital; previously, nursing took place through home visits. The association operated the first outpatient nursing ward in Karlsruhe from 1857 and moved into the newly built St. Vincentius Hospital in 1861. After her death in 1877, Baader left the majority of her property to the St. Vincentius Hospital. The St. Vincentius Clinics in Karlsruhe are now an academic teaching hospital of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Honor

Since 2000, a street in the southern part of Karlsruhe has been named "Amalie-Baader-Straße" in her honor.

literature

• Amalie Baader. In: Friedrich von Weech (editor): Badische Biographien, III. Theil, Karlsruhe 1881, pp. 7-11 digitized version of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 96-97.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories for the History of German Literature 9), pp. 11-12.
• Manfred Koch: Amalie Baader, in: Blick in die Geschichte No. 106, March 20, 2015, p. 1.

Web links

• Regional Information System Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Baader Amalie - Brief Biographical Information
• Amalie Baader: The winter garden as a digitized version
• History of the St. Vincentius Clinics