Hélène Gautier-Pictet
Hélène Gautier-Pictet (born May 8, 1888 in Bern , † December 12, 1973 in Genolier ; resident in Geneva ) was a Swiss women's rights activist .
Life
Hélène Pictet was born in Bern in 1888. Her father worked there as the capital city editor for the Journal de Genève , her mother was Marie Hirschgartner. On her father's side, she came from the Protestant Genevan patrician family Pictet. After graduating from high school, she attended lectures at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva , where she made the acquaintance of Emilie Gourd , who convinced her to stand up for women's rights.
In 1909 she married the banker Charles Gautier, but refrained from entering his household in Cologny near Geneva. In 1937 she founded the Center de liasion des associations féminines genvoises , which campaigned for women's rights in the state institutions of Geneva. She died in 1973 in Genolier in the canton of Vaud .
Individual evidence
- ^ Fati Mansour: Hélène Gautier-Pictet, une rebelle de la haute à Genève . July 17, 2019, ISSN 1423-3967 ( letemps.ch [accessed July 17, 2019]).
- ^ Robert J. Leach: Hélène Gautier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautier-Pictet, Hélène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1973 |
| Place of death | Genolier , Canton of Vaud |