Amalie Buchheim
Amalie Helene Charlotte Buchheim (born May 30, 1819 in Ludwigslust ; † April 1, 1902 in Schwerin ) was the first custodian of the Schwerin antiquities collections in the 19th century and thus the first female director of a museum in German-speaking countries.
Life
Amalie Helene Charlotte Buchheim came as the daughter of Wilhelm Buchheim and Catharina Elisabeth Buchheim, nee. Braun in Ludwigslust to the world. Her father was a ducal court sexton . Since the founding of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology in 1835, Wilhelm Buchheim was entrusted with the maintenance of the association's collections and, after the relocation of the Grand Ducal Antiquities Collection from Ludwigslust to Schwerin, was also the custodian there from 1837. Since her father had been ill for some time, Amalie Buchheim helped him with his activities in the collections from the start. After the death of her father in 1841, Amalie Buchheim lived together with her sick mother and their two years younger brother Carl in very poor circumstances. Amalie now did the deceased father's work on her own, but without receiving official employment or any remuneration for the work from the Grand Duke. It was only after her mother also died in 1860 that the archivist and first secretary of the Antiquities Association Friedrich Lisch ensured that the now forty-year-old Amalie Buchheim was officially given the position of custodian. She held this position until her death in 1902.
meaning
Amalie Buchheim played a key role in setting up, maintaining and expanding the Schwerin antiquities collections. She was not only closely acquainted with Friedrich Lisch, but also had contacts with other contemporary scientists due to her activities. a. with Rudolf Virchow , Luigi Pigorini , Adolph de Morlot and John Kemble. The later professor and museum director of the Kiel antiquities collections, Johanna Mestorf , stayed several times in Schwerin in the 1860s to learn the basics of museum work from Amalie Buchheim and Heinrich Schliemann referred to her in his work “Ilios. City and Country of the Trojans ”as“ my dear friend, the learned Miss Amalie Buchheim ”. In 1882 Amalie Buchheim received the medal "The Sciences and Arts" in silver and with a ribbon from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II , an extraordinary award and recognition of her work.
literature
- J. Anders: The Forgotten Custodine. Amalie Buchheim - a life in the service of the Schwerin antiquities collections . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 126 (2011), 269–283.
Web links
- Literature about Amalie Buchheim in the state bibliography MV
- J. Anders: Amalie Buchheim (1819–1902): A table clock for a lifetime's work. http://www.geschichtssuche.de/amalie.html
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Schliemann: Ilios - Stadt und Land der Trojans, Leipzig 1881, p. 262
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchheim, Amalie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buchheim, Amalie Helene Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1902 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |