Gabriele von Wartensleben

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gabriele Countess von Wartensleben (born April 24, 1870 in Ansbach (Bavaria), † August 12, 1953 in Basel ) was a German teacher and psychologist .

Life

Gabriele Freifrau von Andrian-Werburg was the daughter of the anthropologist , ethnographer and honorary doctor of the University of Vienna Ferdinand Leopold Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg and his wife Cäcilie Meyerbeer (daughter of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer ); her brother was the writer Leopold Andrian .

On May 27, 1890, she married the royal Prussian government councilor Dr. Konrad Ulrich Alexander Graf von Wartensleben . The couple's only son, Wilhelm, was born in 1891. In 1895, however, the marriage was divorced in Berlin. In the same year Gabriele von Wartensleben passed the Matura in Zurich and then studied classical philology and classical archeology at the University of Zurich , the University of Leipzig and the University of Heidelberg . She submitted her dissertation on the subject of “Concept of Greek Chreia and Contributions to the History of its Form” at the University of Vienna , where on May 3, 1900, she became the first female doctoral candidate to obtain a doctorate. phil. did his doctorate (without ever having studied there).

From 1900 to 1925 Gabriele von Wartensleben lived with short interruptions in Frankfurt am Main, where she taught at the Elisabethenschule high school and attended lectures by Max Wertheimer , the founder of Gestalt theory , at the Psychological Institute of the University of Frankfurt . Here she also wrote psychological history by publishing the first written summary of the Gestalt theory by Max Wertheimer in 1914. In this publication she also demonstrated for the first time the possibilities of applying the basic principles of gestalt theory to the psychology of personality .

After a few years in Munich, Gabriele von Wartensleben moved to Basel in 1933 , where she worked as a teacher and author until her death on August 12, 1953. She is buried in Schaan (Liechtenstein).

Publications (selection)

  • Concept of the Greek chreia and contributions to the history of its form . Heidelberg: Winter 1901.
  • Contributions to the psychology of translation . In: Zeitschrift für Psychologie 57, 1910, pp. 90-115.
  • About the influence of the meantime on the reproduction of read letters . In: Zeitschrift für Psychologie 64, 1913, pp. 321–385.
  • The ideal Christian personality. A description of sub specie psychologica . Kempten and Munich: Kösel 1914.
  • Truthfulness and fulfillment of being . Regensburg: Habbel 1925.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Berger 2008: The women's studies at the University of Vienna under the sign of liberalism ; ÖNB undated: Gabriele von Wartensleben. https://webarchiv.onb.ac.at/web/20160903185358/http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/bio_wartensleben.htm
  2. ↑ Namely in an extensive footnote in her treatise The Christian Personality in the Ideal Image. A description of sub specie psychologica. Köselsche Buchhandlung, Kempen and Munich, 1914.
  3. ↑ cf. Prutsch / Zeyringer 2003, p. 486.
  4. ↑ Gabriele von Wartensleben in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Waiting life, Gabriele von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waiting life, Gabriele Countess von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1953
Place of death Basel