Gina Lombroso

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Gina Lombroso (1892)

Gina Elena Zefora Lombroso (born October 5, 1872 in Pavia ; died March 27, 1944 in Geneva ) was an Italian writer.

Life

Gina Lombroso's father, Cesare Lombroso, was a well-known physician and criminologist, her mother came from a Jewish family from Alexandria . Her sister Paola Lambroso became a writer.

Gina Lombroso grew up in Turin , where she attended the Lyceum. She first studied philology and was then one of the first medical students in Italy and completed her medical studies with a doctorate in 1901. She married the historian Guglielmo Ferrero in 1903 and they had a son Leo, who died in 1933. She wrote several children's books for Leo. She gave up medical work at Ferrero's request and also turned to historical studies. After the death of her father in 1909, she initially devoted herself exclusively to looking after his estate and worked for his fame. In 1916 the family moved to Florence, where Lombroso founded the “Associazione Divulgatrice Donne Italiane” (ADDI), the aim of which was to promote further education for women by publishing general educational publications.

At the age of forty-five she realized her self-abandonment, from which she suffered psychologically, and transfigured her suffering into an altruistic virtue of women. The focus of her work, The Soul of Women , written in 1920, is the biologically determined foreign-centeredness of women. In 1929, in the book La donna nella società attuale ( The woman in today's society ), she completely questioned the employment of women in male professions.

Gina Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero were opponents of the fascist Mussolini regime installed in 1924. In 1930 both had to emigrate to Switzerland. In Geneva they established an asylum for refugees and formed a center for anti-fascist resistance . At the “First International Writers' Congress in Defense of Culture” in Paris in 1935, both greetings were read out by the conference leader.

Fonts (selection)

  • I vantaggi della degenerazione . Turin: Bocca, 1904.
  • with Paola Lombroso: Cesare Lombroso. Appunti sulla vita. Le opere . Turin: Bocca, 1906
  • Nell'America Meridionale (Brasile-Uruguay-Argentina) . Milan: Treves, 1908
  • Cesare Lombroso. Storia della vita e delle opere narrata dalla figlia . Turin: Bocca, 1915
  • Riflessioni sulla vita. L'anima della donna . Volume 1: La tragica posizione della donna . Florence: Addi, 1917
  • Riflessioni sulla vita. L'anima della donna . Volume 2: Le conseguenze dell'altruismo . Florence: Addi, 1918.
  • L'anima della donna . Bologna: Zanichelli, 1920
    • Woman's soul . Marie Kurella in Romanian. Frankfurt a. M.: Siebener-Verlag, 1922
  • La donna nella vita. Riflessioni e deduzioni . Bologna: Zanichelli, 1923
  • La donna nella società attuale . Bologna: Zanichelli, 1927
  • Le tragedie del progresso meccanico . Turin: Bocca, 1930
  • Lo sboccio di una vita. Note from Leo Ferrero-Lombroso dalla nascita ai vent'anni . Turin, Tipografia C.Frassinelli 1935
  • (Ed.): L'Oeuvre de Léo Ferrero a travers la critique . Geneva: Edition P.-E. Grivet, 1943

literature

  • Elga Kern (Ed.): Leading Women of Europe , Munich 1999 [1928], Kurzbiongrafie p. 261f.
  • Short autobiography in: Elga Kern (Ed.): Leading Women in Europe , Munich 1999 [1928], pp. 151–159
  • Delfina Dolza: Eat figlie di Lombroso. Due donne intellettuali tra '800 e' 900 . Milan: Franco Angeli, 1990, ISBN 88-204-6610-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kern gives 1875 as the date of birth.
  2. ^ Paris 1935: Speeches and Documents; with materials from the London Writers' Conference 1936 . Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1982, pp. 117f.
personal data
SURNAME Lombroso, Gina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lombroso, Gina Elena Zefora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavia
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1944
Place of death Geneva