Jeanne Marie of Gayette-Georgens

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Jeanne Marie von Gayette-Georgens (born October 11, 1817 in Kolberg as Jeanne Marie von Gayette ; died June 14, 1895 in Leipzig ) was a Prussian writer and educator .

Life

She was the daughter of a major from Kolberg and had an eventful youth. For example, she experienced the November Uprising in Poland and traveled through Europe with her brother. He died in Venice , whereupon she returned to her father in Hirschberg.

After she found her partner Jan-Daniel Georgens , she turned to education.

Her circle of friends included Ludwig Feuerbach , Arthur Schopenhauer , Karl von Holtei and Karl Gutzkow . In 1857 she was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Educational work

Together with her husband Georgens, she founded the Levana care home for the handicapped in 1856 , where she recognized the value of playful occupation for the home residents. She had to leave the institute to the state in 1865, but began to test her employment theory on adolescent girls and women. In a playful way, the children's sense of art and forms should be awakened early on. With this approach, she was a continuation of Friedrich Fröbel , who came up with the basic pedagogical forms (compare, for example, the anchor stone construction kit system that emerged at this time ).

Works (selection)

She wrote combative novels and essays, as well as guides and handbooks on education, handicrafts and social conversation. From 1856 to 1863 she was the editor of the educational magazine "The workers on the practical field of education of the present". In 1867 and 1886, she founded other magazines, “Die Frauenarbeit” and “At home”.

  • Girl world. Against the false emancipation of women. (1848)
  • The family. Leaves from life. (2 volumes 1850) Volume 1 , Volume 2
  • Bildewerkstatt (2 volumes 1857 and 1861)
  • Maximus Casus, the senior teacher from Druntenheim. (1869)
  • Oceana. Four ages of a poetess. (1870)
  • Der Schuh (1870), in Der Bazar, 1870, p.377f
  • Women in employment and at work. 12 lectures. (1872)
  • Jacobea of ​​Holland (2 volumes, 1873)
  • The progress educators u. women's emancipation (1875)
  • Spirit of the beautiful in art and life. Practical Aesthetics for the Educated World of Women (1876) Digitized
  • with her husband: The schools of female handicraft. Models for modern use in 12 booklets. (1877)
  • Breviary of Conversation and Social Entertainment (1879)
  • Illustrated family playbook. (1880)
  • with her husband: Illustrated general playbook. (1882)
  • Conversation and social entertainment. The art of pleasing society and entertaining yourself and others. (1882)
  • New playbook for girls. (1887)

literature

  • Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 183
  • Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexikon der 1000 Frauen , Bonn 2000, S. 117. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Jeanne Sophie Marie Gayette-Georgens at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gayette-Georgens, Jeanne Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gayette-Georgens, Jeanne Marie; Gayette, Jeanne Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1895
Place of death Leipzig