Elisabeth Lemke
Elisabeth Lemke (born June 5, 1849 in Rombitten ; † August 11, 1925 in Sopot ) was a German folklorist .
Life
She was born on June 5, 1849 in Rombitten as the daughter of the landowner there . She took an early interest in the customs and traditions of her East Prussian homeland. She acquired self-taught knowledge that went beyond school education. In 1886 she moved to Berlin , where she finally drew attention to herself with over 200 public lectures on folklore topics, which were later mostly printed in the journal of the Verein für Volkskunde .
Her financial independence allowed her to travel far as far as Russia , America and North Africa . Artifacts brought with them ended up in the museums of Berlin, Danzig, Koenigsberg and Nuremberg.
Her main work Volkstümliches in Ostpreußen (three parts 1884–1899) contains her extensive collection of material on the ethnography of her homeland.
In 1899, the Märkisches Provinzialmuseum in Berlin was the first woman to award her its gold medal.
After the First World War , Elisabeth Lemke settled in Oliva near Danzig . She remained unmarried and died on August 11, 1925 in a retirement home in Sopot .
Works
- Popular things in East Prussia . 3 parts. Mohrungen / Allenstein 1884–99; Unchanged reprint: Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1978, ISBN 3-487-06585-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
literature
- Johannes Bolte: Elisabeth Lemke † . In: Journal of the Association for Folklore , Volume 35/36 (1926), pp. 145 f.
- Sigrit Kauffmann: Elisabeth Lemke (1849-1925). Life and work of the important folklore researcher , in: Mohrunger Heimatkreis-Nachrichten, 97th edition, summer 2002, pages 41–45 (PDF; 579 kB)
- Lemke, Miss Elisabeth . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 490 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hugo Rasmus: Life pictures of West Prussian women in the past and present (sources and representations on the history of West Prussia, Volume 22), Münster 1984, p. 98.
Web links
- Peter Letkemann: Lemke, Elisabeth . In: Ostdeutsche Biographie (Kulturportal West-Ost) - source for the article
- Two love poems by Elisabeth Lemke
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lemke, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rombitten |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1925 |
| Place of death | Sopot |