Else Gütschow

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Else Gütschow , completely Sophia Maria Elisabeth Gütschow , married Polaczek (born November 22, 1865 in Lübeck-Niendorf , † February 11, 1908 in Strasbourg ) was a German historian and art historian. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Strasbourg .

Life

Else Gütschow was the second daughter of the landlord Ludwig Theodor Gütschow (1832–1908) and his wife Maria Elisabeth, née Fehling (1838–1886). Margarethe Gütschow was her younger sister; Carl Philipp Gütschow and Johannes Christoph Fehling were her grandfathers. She was tutored by private tutors and attended the Roquette private teacher seminar in Lübeck. Since then, she has been friends with her classmate Fanny and Reventlow , whom the Gütschow sisters had in their autobiographical novel Ellen Olestjerne under the surname Seebohm . Together they belonged to the liberal Ibsen Club in Lübeck, where young people met to exchange ideas about modern literature and which "was surrounded by an aura of mystery and scandalousness". After Alken Bruhns, Else Gütschow was at the center of this circle.

After graduating from school, she worked as an educator for a total of seven years, one year in Kassel , two years in London and four years in Moscow . She then moved to Zurich and took the Matura examination here in 1898 after external preparation . At the University of Zurich , the pioneer for women's studies in the German-speaking area , she studied history, economics, art history and English studies for three semesters. She was the chairwoman of the Association of Female Students. When in 1900 only Swiss people were allowed to enroll as students, she switched to the University of Strasbourg . Here she could just as though guest student ( guest student be enrolled), but "thanks to their superb skills and knowledge she managed to overcome the prevailing there still prejudice against female students."

In 1903 she was the first woman in Strasbourg with a dissertation on Innocent III supervised by Harry Bresslau . PhD. She dedicated the work to the Strasbourg historian Ernst Sackur (1862–1901), who died early .

She belonged to a group of friends around Helene Bresslau and Albert Schweitzer . Elly Heuss-Knapp paid tribute to her in her Strasbourg souvenir book View from the Münsterturm : “The first Strasbourg student, Else Gütschow, later Dr. Polaczek, was our pride and had the greatest influence on us. ”She taught art history at daughter schools for several years .

Together with Helene Bresslau, she campaigned for women's rights and the welfare of women. For homeworkers , she founded a Strasbourg branch union for homeworkers . She also co-founded the mother home in Strasbourg.

In 1906 she married the art historian Ernst Polaczek . She died in childbed . Her friend Natalia Kulenkamp, ​​born in Lübeck, wrote her obituary. Mannhardt, a daughter of Julius Mannhardt and wife of Eduard Kulenkamp .

Works

  • Innocent III. and England: a presentation of its relations with church and state. Munich [u. a.]: Oldenbourg 1904 (= Historical Library 180, plus Strasbourg, Univ., Diss., 1903 ( digitized , Internet Archive ))
  • Guide through the Strasbourg Cathedral. Strasbourg: Luib 1912

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alken Bruns: cult figure and citizen fright. Ibsen reception in Lübeck around 1890. In: Wolfgang Butt, Bernhard Glienke (ed.): The near north: Otto Oberholzer on his 65th birthday; a commemorative publication. Frankfurt am Main; Bern; New York; Nancy: Lang 1985 ISBN 978-3-8204-5349-2 , pp. 125-138, here p. 1125
  2. ↑ According to the curriculum vitae in your dissertation
  3. ↑ Kulenkamp (lit.)
  4. ↑ Elly Heuss-Knapp: View from the Münsterturm , 6th edition Tübingen 1958, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Gütschow, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gütschow, Sophia Maria Elisabeth; Polaczek, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck-Niendorf
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1908
Place of death Strasbourg