Julie Dedekind

Julie Dedekind , pseudonym : Jeimar Jacobus (born July 25, 1825 in Braunschweig ; † June 6, 1914 there ) was a German writer and educator.

Life

Julie Marie Sophie Dedekind was born in Braunschweig in 1825. She was the oldest child of the court councilor Julius Dedekind , rector of the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum . Her mother was Caroline Marie Henriette, b. Emperius (1799–1882), daughter of the Braunschweig university professor and museum director Johann Ferdinand Friedrich Emperius . Julie had a sister Mathilde and the two brothers Adolf Dedekind and Richard Dedekind . She initially received training from her parents and then attended the Pottsche higher private daughter school .

Influenced by the Hamburg theologian Johann Hinrich Wichern and his foundation Das Rauhe Haus , founded in 1833, Dedekind devoted himself to social tasks in her hometown. In 1850, together with the two Alfasser sisters, she set up a school for initially six girls in need in her father's office at 41 Bohlweg . After two years there was no longer enough space there, so she founded a children's home on Giersberg for girls from the lower classes. On July 12, 1852, 15 children and a teacher moved in there. From 1853 to 1856 Dedekind stayed in France, where she worked temporarily as an educator. After her return she taught again at the rescue center which she founded and is now registered as an association . This had found a new location in May 1853 in front of the stone gate. The rescue house as an institution passed into the sponsorship of the Evangelical Association in 1881 .

In addition to her social commitment, Julie Dedekind was also active as a writer. From 1855 she published short stories in southern German and Swiss journals, initially under the pseudonym Jeimar Jacobus . From the mid-1870s she wrote under her own name for the weekly magazine Quellwasser fürs deutsche Haus , which was published by Georg Wiegand Verlag in Leipzig. Her first independent publication appeared in 1890. This was the story eighth-Lini about the youth of the Brunswick court singer Caroline Fischer-eighth (1806-1896). In 1893, she received a prize from the Braunschweigische Landeszeitung for her story The Marriage Prescription . The topic was the deportation of Braunschweig art treasures to Paris during the Napoleonic occupation .

Julie Dedekind lived from 1894 until her death together with her brother, the mathematician and professor Richard, in Braunschweig in the Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse 87. She died on June 6, 1914 at the age of 88 years in Braunschweig and was on the local main cemetery in the Family grave buried.

Fonts (selection)

• The eighth line. A novella based on motifs from the life of an artist , Verlag Benno Goeritz, Braunschweig 1890.
• The marriage certificate , 1893.
• Pictures from the Pyrenees , short story, 1893.
• A Cinderella of Our Century , 1900.

literature

• Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. City Library, Braunschweig 1991, OCLC 64263113 , pp. 55-58.
• Reinhard Bein : Brunswick women in their time. döringDRUCK, Braunschweig 2018, ISBN 978-3-925268-60-1 , pp. 78–87.
• Elisabeth Gräfe: Dedekind, Juie Marie Sophie . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 136 .
• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. Self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2003, DNB 968395368 , pp. 133-134.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Braunschweig address book for the year 1914 : Entry Dedekind, Julie, Frl., Kaiser Wilhelmstr. 87.