Ida Somazzi
Ida Somazzi (born December 17, 1882 in Bern ; † July 31, 1963 ) was a Swiss women's rights activist .
Life
Ida was born as the daughter of Domenico from Porza , federal civil servant, and Catharina Gamma. After training as a secondary school teacher , she studied history and literature at the University of Bern . It was there that she received her doctorate in 1919, with a thesis on the history of the authoritarian teaching gods in Old Bern . She worked as a teacher in Argentina and as a secondary and seminar teacher in Bern.
She was involved in youth and adult education and for equality for women. From 1919 Somazzi advocated equal pay for equal work. In 1921 she was elected to the executive committee and board of the Swiss League of Nations . She was a founding member of the Women and Democracy Working Group , which was formed in 1934 in the fight against fascism and National Socialism . In 1948 she became president of this working group, in the same year she also took over the presidency of the study commission for women's issues of the UN and UNESCO . She advocated women's suffrage as a human right in a free democracy.
To commemorate you, the Working Group on Women and Democracy created the Somazzi Foundation in 1964 , which annually awards the Ida Somazzi Prize donated by Maria Felchlin . Your estate is administered by the Gosteli Foundation . A street in Bern is named after Ida Somazzi.
Works
- About equal rights for women. Vaterländischer Verlag, Murten 1948.
- History of the official teaching gods in old Bern. Central Board of Switzerland. Teachers' Association, Zurich 1925.
literature
- Marthe Gosteli (Ed.): Forgotten History - Histoire oubliée: Illustrated Chronicle of the Women's Movement 1914–1963. Chronique illustrée du mouvement féministe 1914–1963. 2 volumes. Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-7272-9256-3 .
- Magda Neuweiler u. a .: In memory of Dr. phil. Ida Somazzi. Foundation Dr. Ida Somazzi, 1963
- Franziska Rogger: Somazzi, Ida. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 560 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Franziska Rogger Kappeler: Ida Somazzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 20, 2012 , accessed May 3, 2020 .
Web links
- Ida Somazzi Foundation on somazzi-stiftung.ch/
- Alessandra Widmer: Ida Somazzi Prize. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed May 3, 2020 .
- Ida Somazzi biography on deutsche-biographie.de/
Individual evidence
- ^ Ida Somazzi estate
- ^ Weissenstein: New street names. Media release dated June 30, 2004, accessed on the City of Bern website on October 26, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Somazzi, Ida |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1963 |