Elisabeth von der Howen
Elisabeth (Elise) Gustava Amalie Sophie Baroness von der Howen (* July 12 . Jul / 24. July 1834 greg. In Reval ; † 26. February 1923 ibid) was a Baltic German teacher. In 1879 she founded the first secondary school for girls in Reval, the Howensche School , and ran it until 1918.
From 1919 until the resettlement of the Baltic Germans in 1939, the school served as a knighthood girls' school and elisa school for the education of major daughters of the German Estonian, Russian and Jewish society of Revals. The language of instruction was German, except in the years of Russification in the Estonian governorate from approx. 1890 to 1906.
family
Elise was the eldest child of the landowner Gustav Peter Wilhelm Baron von der Howen (1799-1875) and his wife Eleonore Elisabeth Johanna Staël von Holstein (1805-1883), members of the Estonian knighthood .
Career
In 1853 she received a diploma as private tutor with the Grand Examination , and worked as a teacher in the houses of Perlmann, Baron Roenne , von Baggo , Count Manteuffel, among others . In 1875 she was a teacher of geography, arithmetic and Russian at the school of Auguste Kuschky. On 14./26. In January 1879 the Howens School was founded , until 1916 also boarding school. In May 1918 the school administration ended; In the school year 1918/19 the school was continued as a girls school of the Estonian knighthood under the direction of Gabriele Rosenbaum.
literature
- Celebration Committee : Album of the Howenschen and Elisen School Reval 1930, 315 pages with a directory of all teachers and students
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner : Lexicon of German-Language Literature from the Baltic States and St. Petersburg Volume 1, Berlin / New York, p. 11
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry to Howen, Elisabeth (Elise) Gustava Amalie Sophie Bsse. v. of the. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (arr.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood . Volume 1, Publishing House for Family Research and Heraldry CA Starke, Görlitz 1931, p. 114. ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howen, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howen, Elisabeth (Elise) Gustava Amalie Sophie Baronesse von der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1923 |
| Place of death | Reval |