Elise Averdieck

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Portrait (1905) by Rudolf Dührkoop
Gravestone in the old hammer cemetery in Hamburg-Hamm

Elise Averdieck (born February 26, 1808 in Hamburg ; † November 4, 1907 there ) was a German writer, headmistress and the founder of the Bethesda Hospital and Deaconess Mother House in Hamburg.

Life

Elise Averdieck had twelve siblings, to whose support she stayed at home after school to help them with the household. In 1837 she opened a pre-school for boys in the suburb of St. Georg and took over the girls' department in the St. George Sunday School of Pastor Johann Wilhelm Rautenberg after she exchanged the rationalism in her worldview for the Christian belief in God.

In 1849 Elise Averdieck met the Hermannsburg revival preacher Ludwig Harms , whose sermon made a deep impression on her. Looking back on their first meeting, she later wrote that “God did it all by himself”. The theologian Inke Wegener wrote, referring to the memoirs of Averdieck, summarized in 1908 by Averdieck's niece Hannah Gleiß, in her dissertation on Averdieck's time in Hermannsburg: "In Hermannsburg she received impressions that were important and decisive for her whole life."

Elise Averdieck worked in the women's association for poor and sick care founded by Amalie Sieveking . In the fall of 1856 she gave up her school and opened the Bethesda hospital with two friends in a rented house. As the house became too small, she bought two houses in June 1859, which she expanded into a hospital and deaconess mother house, which in 1860 became part of the Kaiserswerth Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses . In 1869 it enabled the establishment of a deaconess institution in Braunschweig . In the fall of 1881 she resigned from office.

Honors

In Hamburg ( Borgfelde district ) and Rotenburg (Wümme) streets were named after her. There was also a Christian Elise Averdieck School in Hamburg since 1909 , which was nationalized in 1939 and merged with the Hartzloh grammar school in 1987 to form today's Margarethe Rothe grammar school .

In the ev.-luth. Diakonissenanstalt Braunschweig Marienstift is the Elise-Averdieck-Haus, a residential building named after her.

Because of her social and charitable commitment, Elise Averdieck has been accepted into the ranks of the twelve modern apostles of the Apostle Church (Hamburg-Eimsbüttel) since 1990 . In the chancel of the church, portraits of personalities from modern history remind of their exemplary work in the service of humanity.

Works

Elise Averdieck wrote novels, including well-read children's books:

  • The Hamburg fire , 1842
  • Ansgar or: What happened 1000 years ago. Telling the little ones , Kittler, Hamburg 1865
  • Children's life . I: Karl and Marie , 1850, 2nd edition 1887
  • Children's life . II: Roland and Elisabeth , 1851
  • Children's life . III: Lottchen and her children , 1870, 2nd edition 1877
  • Children's life . IV: Aunt on the road , 1883
  • Experiences from old and new times , 1880
  • Bethesda. Looking back , 1887
  • My , 1890
  • Schoolmaster Spitz and his acquaintances , 1894
  • Birthday party , 1898
  • Holidays in Süderhaff , 1903
  • Memoirs, compiled by Hanna Gleiß
    • Part 1, 1908
    • Part 2: Elise Averdieck as a deaconess mother, 1912

literature

Web links

Commons : Elise Averdieck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elise Averdieck: Memoirs . Ed .: compiled by Hannah Gleiß. Part 1. Hamburg 1908, p. 267 .
  2. ↑ Inke Wegener: Between Courage and Humility , p. 333.
  3. ↑ state archive Hamburg: 362-2 / 22 Elise-Averdieck gymnasium, 1908-1995 (stock). Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Elise Averdieck House
  5. ↑ The other eleven are Oscar Romero 1895–1981, Anna Paulsen 1895–1981, Dorothy Day 1897–1980, Simone Weill 1909–1943, Ernst Barlach 1870–1938, Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965, Mathilda Wrede 1864–1928, Sophie Scholl 1921 –1943, Hermann Stöhr 1898–1940, Martin Luther King 1920–1968 and Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945.
personal data
SURNAME Averdieck, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and deaconess mother
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1907
Place of death Hamburg