Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin

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Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin (born March 20, 1758 in Basel ; died October 4, 1840 ) was the daughter of the Swiss philosopher and publicist Isaak Iselin , who campaigned for the establishment of an institute for the education of girls. Your diaries are kept in the Basel-Stadt State Archives.

Life

Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin was the second daughter of a total of nine children by Helena Forcart (1740-1810) and Isaak Iselin (1728-1782). Her father (from Daig in Basel ) took care of the children's education, put together their own teaching material for them and introduced them to French and German literature. Although he was not particularly rich, he enjoyed a great reputation as a council clerk for the city and as a publicist and author of various important works in the city of Basel and beyond.

Accordingly, Anna Maria Iselin embodied considerable social capital , despite the lack of financial resources . In 1776 she married the wealthy later tape manufacturer and politician Niklaus Preiswerk (1755-1815). She had eight children with him, only four of whom reached adulthood.

Apparently shaped by her father's upbringing and educational approaches, Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin tried several times from 1800 to found an institute for the education of girls. She intensified this project after the death of her husband in 1815, but was unable to implement it until her death on October 4, 1840. Because of her interest in education, she also supported the work of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in her family. a. her husband a meeting Pestalozzi with the Russian Tsar Alexander I switched.

Diaries and Effect

Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin's diaries are in the Basel-Stadt State Archives . The total of 1200 pages cover the period from 1785 to March 7, 1839. As the records show, she wrote the diaries with the expectation that they would be read after her death and edited the texts in such a way that they were blackened out. destroyed what anyone could have done trouble ». They inspired the author, actress and historian Satu Blanc to write the play 1798 - The Freyheitsball .

literature

  • Esther Baur: The I in the text: "How I always was and always will be". Reading a diary. In: Manfred Hettling , Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (eds.): The bourgeois sky of values. Interior views of the 19th century. Göttingen 2000, pp. 105-128.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Esther Baur: The I in the text: "How I always was and always will be". Reading a diary. In: Manfred Hettling (ed.): The bourgeois sky of values. Interior views of the 19th century. Göttingen 2000, p. 110 f.
  2. ^ Leonhard Friedrich, Sylvia Springer: Johann H. Pestalozzi: Complete Works and Letters . Register volume 1. Walter de Gruyter, 2012 (p. 434)
  3. ↑ StaBS PA 511a 304-03-04.
  4. ^ Daniel Hagmann : Top Secret - T like diary, secret. Basel State Archives blog from April 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Annette Mahro: Thought dances from the female point of view . Badische Zeitung , January 5, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Preiswerk-Iselin, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of the philosopher Isaac Iselin
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1840