Johanna Willborn
Johanna Willborn (born February 23, 1838 in Schwerin ; † September 27, 1908 there ) was a German educator and writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Julius Willborn and, in addition to a tragedy, mainly published historical novels.
Life
Johanna Wilborn was born as the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Schwerin. When she was 16, her parents sent her to the country to be trained as a housekeeper. As early as 1855 she accepted a job as a teacher at a small school without her parents knowing. At the age of 18 she wrote her first piece with Matthias , which appeared under the pseudonym Julius Willborn in 1857. When her father fell ill, she returned to Schwerin in 1858 and worked for him as an accountant . It was only after her father's death in 1861 that she dealt more intensively with literature and history and became a teacher in Schwerin in 1864.
The father had left the family with considerable debts which were paid off with the mother's entire fortune. From 1871 onwards, Johanna Willborn gave lectures on the training of young women. B. 1886 the lecture Why should poems by Adolf Friedrich von Schack not be missing in the reading books for the upper level of the secondary girls' school? Her lectures on literary and educational topics, but also her novels and her publications in newspapers and magazines, were so successful that she was able to buy a house of her own in which she also took her mother in. In addition, her fortune enabled her to found a kindergarten and a girls' school in Schwerin in 1878, and later a seminar for teachers. One of her students was the German nursing reformer Agnes Karll .
In 1882 Johanna Willborn was one of the founders and chairwoman of the Mecklenburg branch association for higher girls' schools, which began its work under the name Schwerin Association for Teachers and Educators .
Works
- Matthias (tragedy, 1857)
- Claus Jesup (historical novel, 1864)
- Fritz Werner (historical novel in three volumes, 1866)
- Two Mecklenburg dukes or duty and passion (historical novel in two volumes, 1869)
Johanna Willborn also published novellas in Low German in the Plattdütschen Husfründ .
literature
- Willborn, Miss Johanna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 437 ( digitized version ).
- Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, pp. 453f.
- Dieter Dümcke: Johanna Willborn and the Schwerin teachers' association . In: Horst-Gösta Berling (ed.): Mecklenburg schoolmaster. Pictures of life from teachers between Neubrandenburg and Schwerin . Thon, Schwerin 1998, pp. 117-125.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willborn, Johanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willborn, Julius (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1908 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |