Katharina Windscheid

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathe Windscheid

Katharina (Käthe) Charlotte Friederieke Auguste Windscheid (born August 28, 1859 in Munich ; † March 11, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German women's rights activist and pioneer for women's studies in Germany.

Life

Katharina Windscheid was the daughter of the important former Heidelberg and Leipzig lawyer and law teacher Bernhard Windscheid . She attended the secondary school for girls in Munich and, after stays abroad in Geneva and London, passed the language teacher examination in Berlin in 1882. From 1885 to 1890 Windscheid worked at the Teichmann Private School in Leipzig and in 1890 graduated as an elementary school teacher in Dresden.

Windscheid studied as a guest student at the universities of Leipzig, Munich and Heidelberg 1890-1894 German , Romance and English . It is probably thanks to her father's friendship with Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden that she was the first woman to receive a doctorate at Germany's oldest university . The Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University admitted women to doctorate in February 1895 and revocably to study in November, and in the same year Katharina Windscheid did her doctorate with a dissertation on English pastoral poetry . Windscheid was the first woman to receive a doctorate in Heidelberg and the first female Dr. phil. who submitted a dissertation in Germany.

The Allgemeine Deutsche Frauenverein (ADF) , founded in Leipzig in 1865 by Louise Otto-Peters and Auguste Schmidt , advocated university studies for women, among other things. An essential prerequisite for admission to this was the Abitur for women. That is why the ADF founded "Realgymnasialkurse für Mädchen" in Leipzig at Easter 1894, this was the third possibility for women to take their Abitur after Karlsruhe (1893) and Berlin (1893).

The director of the ADF high school courses was Katharina Windscheid until 1914. In the beginning, she taught the first ten students in her father's former study at Leipziger Parkstrasse 11 (today Richard-Wagner-Strasse). One year later, when the premises were insufficient, she held the courses at Thomasring 3a (today Dittrichring).

After working for the ADF, Katharina Windscheid was admitted as a teacher at the Second Higher Girls' School (Oberrealschule) in Leipzig in 1914, although she was unable to present the actually necessary state examination (candidacy for the higher education office). Windscheid worked as a teacher until 1924. She was a member of the board of directors of the Association of German History Teachers from 1913 to 1924.

Works

  • The English shepherd poetry from 1579–1625. A contribution to the history of English shepherd poetry. Max Niemeyer, Halle 1895. (extended version of Windscheid's dissertation)
  • The academic examination of the teachers (senior teacher examination). In: Handbook of Higher Girls' Schooling. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1897, pp. 392-400.
  • The high school system for girls. In: Handbook of Higher Girls' Schooling. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1897, pp. 401-412.
  • Selection of English poems. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats. With an introduction and comments on school use by Käthe Windscheid. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1925.
  • Poems. Lord Byron. Selected and edited by Käthe Windscheid. G. Westermann, Braunschweig 1929.

literature

  • Hannelore Rothenburg: Dr. phil. Käthe Windscheid - pioneer for women's studies. In: Life is striving. The first Auguste Schmidt book. Speeches, lectures and documents of the honors on the 100th anniversary of the death of the pedagogue, publicist and women's rights activist Auguste Schmidt on 10/11. June 2002. ed. by Johanna Ludwig. (= Leipzig studies on women and gender studies). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936522-69-3 , pp. 209-224.
  • Astrid Franzke: 27 female students in the men's bastion. In: Journal University of Leipzig. H. 7/2005, p. 20 f. ( Year 2005 ; PDF, 15.37 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Heidelberg: plate 19th century. (PDF; 2.04 MB)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart: "Initially, however, only on an experimental basis". 100 years ago - the first female medical students move into Heidelberg University. University of Heidelberg, Institute for the History of Medicine, Heidelberg 1999, p. 4. (PDF, 53 kB)
  3. ^ Eike Wolgast: The University of Heidelberg 1386–1986. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-16829-X , p. 116.
  4. ↑ Dorothea Schlözer did not get her doctorate publicly in Göttingen in 1787 and without submitting a dissertation.
  5. ^ Paul Leidinger : The Association of German History Teachers (1913-1934) in the educational policy of its time. In: History lessons and history didactics from the German Empire to the present. Commemorative publication of the Association of History Teachers in Germany on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, pp. 20–41 (37)
personal data
SURNAME Windscheid, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windscheid, Käthe; Windscheid, Katharina Charlotte Friederieke Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German women's rights activist and pioneer for women's studies
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1943
Place of death Leipzig