Hermione Kettler

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Hermine Kettler (pseudonym Lüning ; born November 1, 1881 in Lahr in Baden ; † in the 20th century ) was a German librarian , poet and writer .

Life

Hermine Kettler was born during the founding of the German Empire in 1881 as the daughter of the statistician and geographer Julius Kettler , who was then employed as the editor of the Lahrer Zeitung, and his cousin and wife, who later became women's rights activist , school reformer and writer Hedwig Kettler , née Reder. She was the first of two children in the "very happy Kettler marriage" and sister of Elise Kettler, born in 1885.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermine Kettler, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Lüning , was a well-known poet and widely read writer. Her mother Hedwig published poems by various authors in 1910 under the title Songs from Lower Saxony , among which, in addition to youth poems by Moritz Jahn , there were also poems by "Lüning", the pseudonym of her eldest daughter Hermine.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Kettler worked in Berlin-Schöneberg as an assistant librarian in the municipal public library in Schöneberg . On January 21, 1920, she passed her oral examination on the subject of language and metrics of the Destruction de Rome at the Philosophical Faculty of the university there in Göttingen, in the presence of her advisor Albert Stimming .

Fonts (selection)

  • Language and metrics of the Destruction de Rome , dissertation 1920 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen, typescript, [o. O., o. D.], reproduced as an extract in the yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen ... , Vol. 1, pp. 57-64
  • Blooming world. Songs and Ballads / Lüning , 82 pages in Fraktur , Papenburg (Ems): Verlag H. Rohr, [1918]; contents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Otto Heinrich May : Niedersächsische Lebensbilder (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , Vol. 22, Part 4), ed. on behalf of the Historical Commission, Hildesheim; Leipzig: Lax, 1939, p. 170; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Compare the yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen ... , Ed .: University of Göttingen, Philosophical Faculty, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Universitäts Buchdruckerei (W. Fr. Kaestner), 1920, p. 57; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Hugo Thielen : Kettler, (2) Julius. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 198.
  4. ^ Hugo Willich :  Kettler, Hedwig, née Reder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 558 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Otto Heinrich May: Niedersächsische Lebensbilder (= publications of the historical commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen , vol. 22, part 4), ed. on behalf of the Historical Commission, Hildesheim; Leipzig: Lax, 1960, pp. 155-171; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Kettler, Hermione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüning (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH 20th century