Ida Janson

Ida Caroline Wilhelmine Janson (born February 28, 1847 in Kassel ; † October 5, 1923 in Bremen ) was a German teacher and headmistress in Bremen.

biography

Janson was the eldest child of the teacher Johann August Martin Janson, who had been head of the private girls' school in Bremen since 1860, and Emilie Janson, nee. Schulz. The couple had eleven children.

She attended school in Kassel and, from 1860, the daughters 'community school in Bremen and the affiliated teachers' seminar . She lived in Paris for a long time and learned the French language. In 1878, after the death of her father, she took over the management of her father's daughters' community school , which since 1865 had moved into a new building on the property of the St. Petri orphanage in Wilhadistraße. The women's rights activist and teacher Mathilde Lammers (1837–1905) was her closest colleague and head of the teachers' seminar. The educator and women's rights activist Agnes Heineken (1872–1954) was also a student and teacher at the school. In 1904, Janson introduced French as the first foreign language instead of English. She ran the school until 1907. Her brother Gustav Janson then ran the school until 1933, which was recognized as the Janson Lyceum , taken over by the city of Bremen in 1922 and renamed the Janson School Oberschule for girls in 1938 .

literature

• Romina Schmitter: Janson, Ida Caroline Wilhelmine . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .