Dora Schlatter (writer)

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Dora Schlatter (also Dora Schlatter-Schlatter ; born September 10, 1855 in St. Gallen ; † April 24, 1915 there ) was a Swiss educator and writer .

Live and act

Dora Schlatter was a daughter of the merchant couple Stephan and Wilhelmine Schlatter and a granddaughter of the well-known revival Christian Anna Schlatter . New Testament scholar Adolf Schlatter was one of her seven siblings . From 1875 she worked as a teacher at the New Girls' School in Bern . At the beginning of the 1880s she returned to St. Gallen to work as a writer. In 1883 she married the architect Salomon Schlatter , a distant cousin.

Schlatter mainly published stories, mostly for children and young people, but also poems and songs, biographies (including about her grandmother Anna and her father, but also about Marie Kurz , Jane Welsh Carlyle , Ottilie Wildermuth and others) and advice for women. All publications are shaped by their pietistic background and achieved wide distribution with editions well into the 21st century.

She should not be confused with her niece Dora Schlatter (1890-1969), a daughter of Adolf Schlatter, who was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1946/47, and her great-niece Dora Schlatter († 1997), a daughter of Adolf's son Theodor Schlatter (1885–1971), who had been married to the theologian Leonhard Goppel since 1950 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Homesickness. Collected songs . St. Gallen 1889.
  • What can a mother teach her children? Spittler, Basel 1889.
  • Drops. Stories for big and small children . Spittler, Basel 1890.
  • A detour to the goal. Experiences of a maid . Spittler, Basel 1891.
  • On Saturday. Experienced and told . Spittler, Basel 1891.
  • Fight everywhere. Eight stories for the people . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Waiting away. Pictures from life . R. Reich, Basel 1902.
  • Timeless. Stories and sketches from life . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1905.
  • From noble women. 6 biographies for the more mature youth . Reinhard, Basel 1907.
  • Women's ways and goals. A book for women . Bischof & Klein, Lengerich 1909.
  • Our time and the woman . Reinhard, Basel 1915.
  • Emmy Oeser, Salomon Schlatter (ed.): Correspondence between Hermann Oeser and Dora Schlatter . With an introduction by Paul Jaeger . Publishing house Eugen Salzer, Heilbronn 1920.
  • A servant of his master. From the life of Stephan Schlatter . Bookstore of the Evang. Society, St. Gallen 1922.

literature

  • Salomon Schlatter: Up to the light! A small sketch of Dora Schlatter's life with excerpts from her letters . 7th ed. Buchh. the evang. Society, St. Gallen 1917.
  • Ernst Gerhard Rüsch: Dora Schlatter. A poet of faith and love. For the hundredth birthday on September 10, 1955 . Tschudy-Verlag, St. Gallen 1956.

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personal data
SURNAME Schlatter, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlatter-Schlatter, Dora (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1915
Place of death St. Gallen