Augusta von Oertzen

Augusta von Oertzen (born February 26, 1881 in Mirow ; † February 26, 1954 in Berlin ; full name: Auguste Wilhelmine Bertha Adolfine Marie Adelheid von Oertzen ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Augusta came from the so-called Haus Rattey of the younger Helpter line of her extensive family. She was born as the eldest daughter and first of four children of Mecklenburg-Strelitz's chamberlain and governor von Mirow, Drost Karl (Wilhelm Clemens Friedrich Ludwig August) von Oertzen (1836–1890) and his wife Louise (* 1848), daughter of the chief captain Wilhelm from Oertzen to Lübbersdorf near Friedland (Mecklenburg) .

Augusta von Oertzen was one of the first Mecklenburg women for whom an academic education was possible. After graduation she was in 1918 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1933 to 1943 she was the editor of Correspondence for Art and Science and von Pallas . After that she was a consultant at the German News Office until 1945 . Until her death she lived at Laubenheimer Platz 9 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Works

The beauty gallery of Ludwig I in the Munich Residence. With an introduction and the descriptions of those portrayed. F. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1923
Mary, Queen of the Rosary. An iconography of the rosary through 2 centuries of German art. F. Filser, Augsburg 1925
Tired blood. According to the records of a deceased. Heim-Verlag Dreßler, Radolfzell 1935
Maria Theresa. Portrait of a German woman. 1938
many essays

literature

Who is who? , 12th edition, 1955
Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Nekrolog 1936–1970, 1973

Web links

Literature by and about Augusta von Oertzen in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Augusta von Oertzen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Taschenbuch des Sex von Oertzen (1899), p. 48. In other sources (probably wrong): February 28, 1887. - The year of birth 1887 is not plausible because on October 12, 1887 her sister, Elisabeth v. O., was born.
↑ Dissertation: Mary, Queen of the Rosary. An iconographic study through two centuries of German art with views of Belgium, France, Holland and Italy .

personal data
SURNAME	Oertzen, Augusta von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oertzen, Auguste von; Oertzen, Auguste Wilhelmine Bertha Adolfine Marie Adelheid von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mirow
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1954
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Taschenbuch des Sex von Oertzen (1899), p. 48. In other sources (probably wrong): February 28, 1887. - The year of birth 1887 is not plausible because on October 12, 1887 her sister, Elisabeth v. O., was born.

[2] Dissertation: Mary, Queen of the Rosary. An iconographic study through two centuries of German art with views of Belgium, France, Holland and Italy .