Betty Gleim

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Betty Gleim, painting by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner , around 1815. Focke Museum

Ilsabetha Gleim , called Betty (born August 13, 1781 in Bremen ; † March 27, 1827 in Bremen) was a teacher , school founder and writer.

biography

Gleim's father was the wine merchant Johann Christian Gottlieb Gleim (1744–1801) from Halberstadt , her mother was Adelheid Tidemann (1760–1801), who was born in Bremen. Her father's uncle was the Halberstadt poet and canon Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719–1803), who had great intellectual influence on the upper-class family and the upbringing of the young girl.

Gleim devoted himself to educational literature early on and made the decision to found an educational institution for young women in Bremen himself . She pursued ideas for education such as those represented by Jean-Jacques Rousseau . As a follower of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzis , however, she transferred these educational goals to girls, because, as she herself put it, “men like it is not enough”.

The pedagogical self-taught Betty Gleim opened the school for girls on October 14, 1806 at the age of 24 at the Spitzenkiel in Bremen . The school soon had 80 students, whom she taught herself in subjects such as history and geography. Mathematics and physics were also important to her and she herself provided machines and workshop equipment especially for the students. In her opinion, the key to a woman's self-determined life lay in (practical) training.

Failed due to the resistance of the authorities and the disinterest of many Bremen residents (schooling for girls was considered entirely superfluous), she had to give up her practical teaching activities again in 1815. But until 1816 she published textbooks and educational treatises in quick succession. She tested her pragmatic attitude towards female vocational training for herself in a very unique way. After learning Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's drawing method in Switzerland and Alois Senefelder's still young lithographic technique in Munich , she founded a lithographic printing company in 1819, the first ever in Bremen, but had to give up this company after just a few months. However, Betty Gleim's principles were adopted by educators in the second half of the 19th century and implemented when founding teachers ' seminars and girls' schools (see Kippenberg-Gymnasium ).

Many people remember Gleim through her Bremen cookbook, with which she showed early on that housewife work and intellectual interests do not contradict one another. The Bremisches Kochbuch was not only a great success with the Hanseatic League of Bremen and reached its 13th edition in 1892. Gleim was an important woman in the Bremen women's movement .

Honors

  • A picture of her hangs in the Focke Museum .
  • The children's and family center Betty Gleim Haus in Bremen-Mitte, district Hulsberg, bears her name.
  • The Gleimstraße in the district Ostertor in Bremen is not for her, but older address books according to the poet Gleim be named.

Works

  • Announcement and plan of a school for girls to be built in Bremen in 1806 . Bremen, 1805
  • Reading book for exercise in the declaration . Bremen 1809 and 1810
  • The education and instruction of the female sex. A book for parents and educators . Bremen and Leipzig 1810 (new printer of the edition, Paderborn 1989)
  • Fundamental theory or terminology of the grammar of the German language . Bremen and Leipzig 1810
  • Narrative and picture book for the pleasure and instruction of the youth . Bremen 1811
  • Guide to the art of verse building . Bremen and Leipzig, Comptoir for Literature, 1814
  • What does the reborn Germany have to ask of its women? Bremen and Leipzig 1814
  • Marginal drawing for the work of Frau von Stael on Germany. Bremen and Leipzig 1814
  • Some thoughts on style exercises . Bremen 1814
  • About the education of women and the assertion of their dignity in the most important circumstances of their lives. A book for virgins, wives and mothers . Bremen and Leipzig 1814
  • Justifications of some concepts of fundamental doctrine . Bremen 1815
  • Bremisches Koch- und Wirtschaftsbuch [...] containing very clear instructions on how to prepare food and baked goods for all stands. For young women who take care of their own kitchen and housekeeping and want to run their business for a profit . Bremen and Aurich 1808 ( edition from 1817 in the digital collections of the SuUB Bremen )
  • Bremen cookbook. In addition to an appendix of important housekeeping rules and the indication and comparison of the finest German weights and measures, making the same usable for all of Germany . Bremen 1810
    (an edition from 1810 cannot be proven bibliographically: 1st edition 1808; 2nd edition 1817; 3rd edition 1823 ...)

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personal data
SURNAME Glue, Betty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleim, Ilsabetha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, school founder and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1827
Place of death Bremen