Léonie Kastner-Boursault
Léonie Amable Alberte Kastner-Boursault (born July 8, 1820 in Paris , † January 17, 1888 in Kehl ) was the youngest daughter of the French actor and theater director Jean-François Boursault and his second wife Rose Alberte Bocquillon, and a student of the French composer Jean -Georges Kastner and from 1837 his wife. She and her husband, who died in 1867, had two sons, including the physicist Frédéric Kastner , who invented the pyrophone, an organ-like musical instrument.
She was also a close friend of Henry Dunant , the founder of the Red Cross movement and later winner of the Nobel Peace Prize , whom she had met in 1872. Among other things, she entrusted Dunant with the marketing of the pyrophone, spent a long trip with him through Italy and saved him from a life of poverty with her financial support.
Her grave is on the Cimetière Saint-Gall in Strasbourg .
literature
- Fritz Bourseaux: The Boursault family in Belgium and Germany, their descendants and their time: Life pictures of a family in the Romano-Germanic cultural area. Series: Genealogy and regional history. Volume 24. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1972, p. 24
Web links
- The Androom Archives - Kastner, Léonie (English)
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| SURNAME | Kastner-Boursault, Léonie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kastner-Boursault; Léonie Amable Alberte; Boursault, Léonie Amable Alberte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the French composer Jean-Georges Kastner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1888 |
| Place of death | Throat |