Anna Schapire-Neurath

Anna Schapire-Neurath (born September 13, 1877 in Brody / East Galicia , † November 12, 1911 in Vienna ; born Anna Schapire ) was an Austrian writer and poet.

She translated literary and historical works from Russian, Polish, English and French into German. In her publications she campaigned for the rights of women and in particular called for training and career opportunities for women.

Life

Anna Schapire-Neurath was the daughter of wealthy Jewish parents. She grew up with four sisters in Brody, which was then mostly Jewish, and was raised multilingual. Her older sister Rosa Schapire became an art historian and promoted the Brücke artists.

Anna Schapire-Neurath studied philosophy, literature and economics in Vienna , Berlin and Bern . In 1906 she received her doctorate in philosophy in Bern. In the following year she married her fellow student, who was five years her junior, the Austrian economist and philosopher Otto Neurath , son of the economist Wilhelm Neurath .

In the magazine Neues Frauenleben , edited by Auguste Fickert , she published the essay on maternity protection in 1905 , an essay on Bettine Brentano (von Arnim) and the woman and social policy , 1908 The amendment of the trade regulations by the law of February 15, 1907 , again Upbringing of Girls and Racial Hygiene in 1910 and 1911 Two Camps . Her most important work is the outline of a history of the women's movement published in 1908 . Together with her husband, she wrote the economics reader in 1910 .

Anna Schapire-Neurath died giving birth to her son Paul Martin . An obituary in Der Bund , the central gazette of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations , praised her as an “outstanding intellectual worker in the economic, social and feminist fields”.

Except for her sister Rosa Schapire, who emigrated to England in 1939, members of the Schapire family perished in the Holocaust .

Works

• Outline of a history of the women's movement, I. The prehistory of the modern women's movement in the eighteenth century , Felix Dietrich, Leipzig 1909, ÖNB 458059-B
• Friedrich Hebbel - From nature and the spiritual world . HB Teubner, Leipzig 1909 (poetry)
• Economics reader . Werner Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1910, with Otto Neurath
• Singing songs , poetry, 1903

Translations

• Natalie Zacharin: Selected letters . Gautzsch 1908
• Biography of Leo Tolstoy, 1909.
• Grigori Gerschuni : From the recent past . Hans Bondy Verlag, Berlin 1909.
• Maxim Gorki : Former people .
• Maxim Gorky: The Chan and his son .
• Ludwik Kulczyck: History of the Russian Revolution . Perthes, Gotha 1910 With Rosa Schapire.
• Francis Galton : Genius and Heredity . Leipzig 1910, with Otto Neurath.

literature

• H. Meißner:  Neurath Anna. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 101 f. (Direct links on p. 101 , p. 102 ).
• Burcu Dogramaci, Günther Sandner (eds.): Rosa and Anna Schapire: Social Science, Art History and Feminism around 1900 . Aviva-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-932338-87-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Schapire-Neurath in the catalog of the German National Library

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• Curriculum vitae and obituary in: Der Bund , Zentralblatt des Bundes Österreichischer Frauenvereine, No. 10, December 1911, pp. 9-10.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publications in Neues Frauenleben ( Memento from August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Obituary in Der Bund  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Outline of a history of the women's movement