Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos

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Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos

Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos (born March 15, 1851 as Karoline Michaelis in Berlin ; † November 18, 1925 in Porto ) was a German and Portuguese Romance studies , she is counted among the most learned philologists in Hispanic and Lusitan studies . Karoline Michaelis was married to the Portuguese historian and art and music writer Joaquim António da Fonseca de Vasconcelos .

Life

Karoline Michaelis was the last of five children of the math teacher Gustav Michaelis . At the age of sixteen she published her first small Romance article (linguistic-historical notes on Adolph Mussafia's A Spanish representation of the Crescentia saga , Vienna 1867); shortly afterwards your explanations on Herder's Cid (1868) appeared. She studied Spanish and Portuguese literary studies and wrote scientific papers in this area and on Portuguese folklore, including studies on Romance word creation . In 1876 she married the later founder of Portuguese art history, Joaquim António da Fonseca Vasconcelos. She lived with him in Porto since they were married.

In 1911 she was appointed to a chair as the “first woman in Romance and German Studies ” - not in Germany , but in her adopted home Portugal , at the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon . Since she was tied to Porto, however, she asked for a transfer to Coimbra , which she was granted, and so in 1912 she was solemnly appointed as the first woman at a Portuguese university (at the oldest university in Portugal, the University of Coimbra ) Professor of Romance and Germanic Philology introduced.

She worked on the three-volume História da Colonização Portuguesa do Brasil ( History of the Portuguese Colonization of Brazil ).

Honors

For her services as a mediator between German and Portuguese culture, she received an honorary doctorate from the universities in Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau .

Various streets and schools in Portugal and Germany were named after Carolina Michaëlis. In 2005, Caroline-Michaelis-Strasse was named in Berlin-Mitte , where Deutsche Bahn AG, with around 2,400 employees since November 18, 2005, and the evangelical aid organization Bread for the World are based. A postage stamp was issued in Portugal for her 150th birthday. In Porto, a school and the corresponding subway station is named after her.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carolina Michaëlis  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Busse: A Romanist from Berlin in Portugal: Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos (1851–1925) , online at romanistinnen.de
  2. ↑ Karoline Michaëlis: Explanations to Herder's "Cid" . In: The Cid, sung about after Spanish romances, with an introduction about Herder and its importance for German literature , Library of German National Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Leipzig, Brockhaus 1868, pp. 127–141.
  3. ^ Mühlschlegel, Ulrike : Dona Carolina Michaëlis e os estudos de filologia portuguesa . TFM, 2004, ISBN 9783925203930 .
  4. ↑ photo
  5. ^ Caroline-Michaelis-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, Carolina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michaelis, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romance studies and full professor, first female professor in Portugal
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1925
Place of death postage