Charlotte Louise von Hohenthal

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Charlotte Louise Countess von Hohenthal , b. Princess Biron von Kurland , (born March 30, 1808 in Wartenberg , Silesia , † August 14, 1845 in Braunschweig ) was a German philanthropist and social reformer.

Gravestone at the main Protestant church in Königsbrück

Life

Charlotte Louise was born in 1808 as the daughter of Prince Gustav Kalixt von Biron and his wife, Antoinette Charlotte Luise Franziska Fanny Countess von Maltzan .

She lost her parents early and was raised by an Englishwoman, Miss Harrison. From her she received information about the English welfare system. On May 30th, 1829 she married the chamberlain and count Peter Alfred von Hohenthal, son of Peter Carl von Hohenthal and owner of the royal lordship of Königsbrück , and moved to Königsbrück .

Next to the castle entrance there , in the front part of the Meurer ironworks , Charlotte Louise von Hohenthal opened a toddler school for 18 children on May 2, 1835. Her intention when founding the company was to give parents the opportunity to bring up their children in a morally and religiously appropriate way if they had to work themselves and did not have time to raise their children. The parents had to pay a contribution for the day care and the children had to appear neatly dressed, well combed and washed, otherwise they would be sent back to clean. The institution was named after her and is called Louisenstift . There was also a small hospital and a soup kitchen for 12 poor people.

In Berlin she got to know Johannes Evangelista Goßner and through him the way of working and living of deaconesses. Together with Frau von Brause, Frau von Leipziger and Baroness von Wirsing, she founded the Diakonissenanstalt Dresden in 1844 . The building was inaugurated on May 19, 1844 by Theodor Fliedner and Fliedner released two sisters of his Diakonie for the Dresden institution.

Louise Charlotte von Hohenthal died of typhus in Braunschweig at the age of 36 and was buried in Königsbrück.

literature

  • Werner Fink, Esther Selle: Living with care. A foray through the history of the Dresden deaconess institution 1844–2004 . Deaconess Sisterhood Dresden, Dresden 2004.
  • Pastor Dr. G. Molwitz: Anniversary report of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakonissenanstalt in Dresden. Dresden 1894

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hpsmedia GmbH: hpsmedia GmbH: research center. In: pflegemagazin.de. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Berliner Taschenbuch: for ... 1847 . Decker, 1847 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ citoidWikitext * NO TITLE PROVIDED. In: koenigsbrueck.de. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ A foray through history , p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenthal, Louise Charlotte from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biron of Courland, Princess Louise Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philanthropist and social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartenberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1845
Place of death Braunschweig