Corinna Shattuck

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Corinna Shattuck

Corinna Shattuck (born April 21, 1848 in Louisville (Kentucky) , † May 25, 1910 in Newton (Massachusetts) ) was an American teacher and Evangelical missionary.

Life

Corinna Shattuck grew up as an orphan with her grandparents in Acton, Massachusetts . She received training as a teacher at the Framingham Normal School , now Framingham State University in Framingham in Massachusetts and was a missionary of the Evangelical Missionary Society American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions .

In 1873 she was sent to the Middle East . She left New York City on August 27, 1873 and reached Aintab (now Gaziantep ) in southeastern Anatolia on November 18, 1873. She spent the winter of 1876/77 in Urfa and the winter of 1878/79 in Adana . In 1879 she returned to the United States for health reasons and recovered in Colorado Springs . In June 1880 she resigned from the mission society, but returned in 1883 to be sent again. She left New York on November 14, 1883, reached Adana on December 12, 1883. Until 1892 she taught in Marasch ( Kahramanmaraş ) and from 1892 in Urfa. From 1899 to September 1900 she was on home leave in the USA. On September 29, 1900 she was back in Urfa, where she stayed until 1910. She reached Boston on May 8, 1910, but died shortly afterwards of tuberculosis .

Corinna Shattuck taught at schools for girls in Aintab, Marasch and Urfa. After Mara Haratounian, one of her former students, who had meanwhile become a teacher, almost went blind, Corinna Shattuck built a school for the blind in Urfa with her from 1902 and produced teaching materials in Braille that she adapted for the Armenian language . With the help of the British and Foreign Bible Society , she had parts of the Bible printed in Braille in Armenian.

Corinna Shattuck in Urfa

In Urfa she witnessed the massacre of Armenians in the winter of 1895/96 , which she reported to the USA. She witnessed the mass murder on December 28, 1895, in which around 1500 of up to 4000 people were burned alive in a church, and described this in 1896 as “a massacre that turned into a great Holocaust ”. Her efforts, with which she defended the area of ​​the mission school, which is protected by international treaties, saved the lives of around three hundred Armenian women and children. She owed her own rescue to a group of courageous Turkish officials. After the massacre, she organized help for the survivors and coordinated the accommodation of the approx. 3000 orphans who had survived, partly in connection with the German Syrian orphanage and the Armenian relief organization of Johannes Lepsius . In order to provide the widows and orphans with an income, she set up weaving and embroidery workshops. She used her trip to the USA in 1900 to find buyers in Europe for the products of the workshops, in particular embroidered handkerchiefs.

She was buried in Newton's cemetery. Her tombstone with inscriptions in English and Armenian was donated by the Armenian community in Urfa.

literature

  • Ferdinand Brockes : Across Asia Minor: Pictures from a winter trip through the Armenian emergency area. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1900, pp. 76–92 (on Urfa and Miss Chattuck)
  • Shattuck, Corinna , in: Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown (Eds.): The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Volume 9, Boston: Biographical Society 1909, p. 341
  • Emily Clough Peabody: Corinna Shattuck, missionary heroine. Chicago 1913
  • Shattuck, Corinna , in: Hermann Goltz (Ed.): Germany, Armenia and Turkey 1895–1925, documents and magazines from the Dr. Johannes Lepsius Archive. Part 3: Thematic lexicon on people, institutions, places, events , compiled and written by Hermann Goltz and Axel Meissner; Saur-Verlag Munich ISBN 3-598-34409-0 doi : 10.1515 / 9783110959376.435 , pp. 461f

Web links

Commons : Corinna Shattuck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Data from your index card , American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection
  2. ^ According to Corinna Shattuck , obituary in: Outlook for the Blind 4 (1910), pp. 104f
  3. ^ Letter reproduced in: Frederick Davis Greene: Armenian Massacres or The Sword of Mohammed. 1896; also in: Edwin Munsell Bliss: Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities. Edgewood Publishing Company, 1896, Chapter 24, p. 461.
  4. ↑ message of the New York Times on February 27, 1896
  5. ↑ See her report in: Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions. Volume 2, New York 1900, pp 236 -238
  6. ↑ Corinna Shattuck at findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Shattuck, Corinna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American teacher and evangelical missionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville (Kentucky)
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1910
Place of death Newton (Massachusetts)