Gertrud Herzog-Hauser

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Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (born June 15, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † October 9, 1953 there ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Gertrud Herzog studied classical philology, German and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin , where she heard, among others, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . On 22 December 1916 she was in Vienna with Ludwig Radermacher Dr. phil. PhD , in 1917 she passed the teaching examination.

After graduating, Gertrud Herzog worked as a teacher at the girls' high school in Rahlgasse . In addition to teaching, she continued her specialist studies and wrote numerous articles for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity . In 1932 she became the first woman to do her habilitation at the University of Classical Philology. Since then she has held lectures and exercises at the Institute for Classical Philology and at the trial teacher seminar. In 1937 she was appointed director of the girls' high school.

After the annexation of Austria by the German Reich , her career was interrupted. Gertrud Herzog-Hauser was classified as Jewish by the Nazi regime , and lost her venia legendi and her director's position. Her marriage to the artist Carry Hauser , with whom she had been married since 1922, protected her from further persecution and deportation . Her husband had also lost his job for political reasons. How long their so-called “ mixed marriage ” would protect them from deportation was uncertain. Therefore emigrated Gertrud Duke Hauser in 1939 via the Netherlands to Switzerland, according to a fellowship at Somerville College in Oxford , where she met her husband during the Second World War remained.

After her return to Vienna, Hauser was given back her license to teach at the university, but not the management of the girls' high school. Instead, she went to the girls' high school in Wenzgasse as a teacher . At the University of Vienna she was awarded the title of “Associate Professor”, which, however, was not associated with a salary or a vote on the Faculty Council. A call to the University of Innsbruck in 1950 did not materialize. In the same year Gertrud Herzog-Hauser suffered a stroke , from the consequences of which she died three years later.

Services

Gertrud Herzog-Hauser has emerged from diverse activities in various areas. As a highly qualified classical scholar, she published numerous lexicon articles and essays. Her main research interests were ancient mythology and religion, as well as ancient Latin literature from Virgil to Antonius of Padua . In addition, she wrote popular science articles for various newspapers and magazines in her environment and published Latin school text editions. Her last essay, The Woman in Greco-Roman Antiquity , published in 1954, is considered to be groundbreaking .

In public, Gertrud Herzog-Hauser advocated equal rights for women in school and education. Her articles on women's education and the didactics of ancient languages ​​met with criticism in the male-dominated education sector of the 1930s.

Gertrud Herzog-Hauser was a member and long-time chairwoman of the Association of Writers and Artists, where she worked with Käthe Braun-Prager , among others . After her death, the association held a memorial hour for Herzog-Hauser on December 16, 1953.

On November 12, 2009, the high school in Rahlgasse dedicated a memorial plaque to Gertrud Herzog-Hauser, which was ceremoniously unveiled at a symposium.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ancient Greek love poems . Vienna 1924
  • Publius Ovidius Naso: Selected poems . Vienna 1928. Numerous reprints
  • Soter. The figure of the Savior in the ancient Greek epic . Vienna 1931
  • Octavia: Fabula praetexta . Vienna 1934
  • Uit de Vrouwenbrieven van den H. Hieronymus . Herzogenbusch 1941
  • Anthony of Padua. His life and his work . Lucerne 1947
  • De Godsdienst der Grieken . Roermund 1952

literature

  • Who is who in Austria? Second edition, Vienna 1953
  • Friedrich Wotke : [Obituary for Gertrud Herzog-Hauser] . In: Anzeiger für die Altarwissenschaft . Volume 7 (1954), Col. 63
  • Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Vienna 1996. ISBN 3-205-05212-9
  • Ilse Korotin , Heidi Schrodt: Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894–1953). Classical philologist, university lecturer and school director . Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-7069-0581-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title of the (unprinted) work: De donis fatalibus . Archive of the University of Vienna, Philosophical Faculty, Rigorosenakten, PH RA 4252 .
  2. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12623 , accessed on April 22, 2011.