Elisabeth Granier

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Elisabeth Granier (born January 25, 1870 in Posen , † July 8, 1951 in Blankenburg ) was a German teacher and headmistress.

Life

Elisabeth Granier was born the daughter of a Prussian officer . After attending a teachers ' seminar in Breslau , she got her first job as a teacher in Hanover from 1896 to 1900 at the Boysenschule , a private girls' school in Hanover founded by Julie Boysen in 1882 .

Elisabeth Granier then studied French, German and philosophy in Paris and at the University of Göttingen and passed her exam as a senior teacher .

In 1906 Granier returned to Hanover, where she became headmistress of the Boysenschule , which was officially recognized as a private lyceum under her in 1911 . After moving to a new building on Rumann-Straße in 1914, the school was named Ost-Lyzeum .

After the First World War , Granier successfully applied for the city of Hanover to take over the Eastern Lyceum in the Weimar Republic in 1928 . Elisabeth Granier retired on March 31, 1931 .

Elisabeth Granier died in Blankenburg in 1951, but was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery , where her grave is still preserved today.

The Ostlyzeum, renamed Elisabeth-Granier-Schule in 1934, kept the name until 1955. Then the school was divided into the Ricarda-Huch-Schule , which remained in the old parent company, and the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule (Hanover) on Podbielskistraße .

Honors

  • 1934 Renaming of the Ostlyzeum to "Elisabeth Granier School"
  • The street Elisabeth-Granier-Hof in the Hanover district of List , which was laid out in 2001, was named after the director of studies.
  • Naming "Elisabeth-Granier-Passage" in the district Kaltenweide of the city of Langenhagen

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek: Granier, Elisabeth
  2. Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Episode 57/58 (2003), pp. 277–286