Josephine Henriette Gerlach

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Elise Gerlach (born Elise Sedelmeyer ; actually: Josephine Henriette Gerlach , born Josephine Henriette Sedelmeyer ; pseudonym Josephe G .; * March 4, 1772 in Dresden ; † April 11, 1809 ) was a German draftsman and author on botany .

Life

Josephine Henriette Sedelmeyer was on March 4, 1772 daughter of Dresden for his time Prince Anton of Saxony make Hof - Fourier born Carl August Sedelmeyer.

Sedelmeyer married the bookseller Johann Heinrich Samuel Gerlach . As a "great friend of botany" she published a botanical embroidery and drawing book for women in Dresden in 1801 or 1802 . For this she had both written the botanical texts and made the drawings herself. The first part of the work, illustrated in multiple colors with “twelve black and twelve colored panels”, was also published by Gerhard Fleischer the Younger in Leipzig in 1805 .

Fonts (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johann Christian Friedrich Harless : Elise Gerlach , in ders .: The merits of women in science, health and medicine, as well as in regional, ethnology and human studies, from the oldest to the newest. A contribution to the history of spiritual culture, and of natural science and medicine in particular , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1830, p. 267; Digitized via Google books
  2. ^ A b Sophie Pataky : Gerlach, Josephine Henriette, born. Sedelmeyer , in this .: Lexicon of German women of the pen , complete new setting of both volumes in one book, ed. by Karl-Maria Guth, Norderstedt: BoD Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8430-4451-6 , p. 196; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ Signature in the introduction to Botanical Embroidery and Drawing Book ... , Part 1, Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, 1805, p. IV
  4. ^ A b c Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel : Gerlach (Josephine Henriette) , in ders .: The German women writers of the nineteenth century , part 1: A -L , FA Brockhaus. Leipzig 1823, pp. 151–152; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ Imprint of the work together with the following plates
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Josephine Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerlach, Elise; Sedelmeyer, Elise (maiden name); Sedelmeyer, Josephine Henriette (maiden name); G., Josephe (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, draftsman and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1809