Elisabeth Bernhöft

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Elisabeth Louise Moritia Ernestine Bernhöft (born September 23, 1880 in Rostock ; † November 28, 1964 in Herborn ) was a German educator and is considered the first female student at the University of Rostock .

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Elisabeth Bernhöft was born as the daughter of the university professor Franz Bernhöft and his wife Martha, geb. Hinrichsen, born. From 1887 to 1897 she attended a higher girls 'school in Rostock and then the teachers' seminar. In 1899 she passed the teacher examination in order to work as an educator and teacher in the following years. When she wished to continue her education, Elisabeth Bernhöft spent a year and three months in Paris and improved her French.

From 1905 she attended lectures at the University of Rostock and prepared privately for the final exam. In 1907 Elisabeth Bernhöft received her school-leaving certificate at the Friderico-Francisceum in Doberan.

In the rectorate year 1909/10 she was matriculated under the Germanist Wolfgang Golther on October 27, 1909 as the first female student at the University of Rostock and began studying German, history, French and philosophy. The University of Rostock was the last German university to legally allow women to enroll.

The lectures attended previously were recognized. On January 28, 1910 Elisabeth Bernhöft was with her dissertation on " the song of the hörnenen Siegfried " to Dr. phil. PhD.

In the autumn of the same year she passed the philological state examination. At Easter 1911 she was appointed as a senior teacher at the Municipal Lyceum and Oberlyceum in Schwerin (Mecklenburg) and in the same capacity in 1912 transferred to the Schiller School in Frankfurt am Main .

Little is known about her further life. After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, she was investigated because she was considered politically left. She worked as a teacher and author of works on French lessons.

Works

  • Das Lied vom Hörnenen Sigfrid: Prehistory of the printing department of the XVI. Century. Rostock: Boldt 1910 (Rostock, Univ., Diss., 1910)
  • Manuel de français. Frankfurt a. M .: Diesterweg 1931; several editions until 1942

literature

  • Marianne Beese : Women's studies at the University of Rostock from 1909/10 to 1945. In: Rosina Neumann (Ed.): History of women's studies in Rostock - from the beginnings to the end of the Second World War. Rostock 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register, Rostock registry office, No. 810/1880
  2. ↑ Death register registry office Herborn, No. 300/1964
  3. ^ A b Marianne Beese: History of women's studies in Rostock - from the beginnings to the end of the Second World War ; Rostock 1999.
  4. ↑ Registration of Elisabeth Bernhöft in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ From: Program Frankfurt / M. Schillerschule 1913, in: Franz Kössler: Personenlexikon von Lehrer des 19. Jahrhundert, Giessen 2008, online at: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2008/6198/pdf/Koessler-Baack-Buzello. pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.schillerschule.de/images/dokumente/Archiv/100-jahrfeier/1933-linke_lehrer.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Bernhöft, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhöft, Elisabeth Louise Moritia Ernestine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, first student at the University of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1964
Place of death Herborn