Lore Grages

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Lore Grages , married Lore Heilbrunn , (born December 1, 1906 in Dar es Salaam ; † after 1933) was a German translator for French and Dutch .

Life

Her father was the railway engineer and government building master builder Ferdinand Grages (1869–1951), later a member of the board and supervisory board of Philipp Holzmann , who u. a. was in charge of railway construction in German East Africa .

Grages studied modern philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , wrote her dissertation with the title Frauengestaltung with Theodor Fontane (Buchdruckerei G. Otto, Heppenheim 1931) and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1933 she married the businessman and later private scholar Rudolf Heilbrunn , who was of Jewish descent and the son of the Frankfurt lawyer and politician Ludwig Heilbrunn and the daughter of a jeweler Clara Koch. She emigrated with her husband to Amsterdam and carried his last name during the time in exile.

Grages translated around 40 books, mostly by Dutch, but also by French authors.

Works (selection)

  • Women design by Theodor Fontane . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Frankfurt a. Main / Presented by Lore Grages from Dar es Salaam (East Africa), Buchdruckerei G. Otto, Heppenheim (Bergstrasse), 1931.
  • What Eva thinks about Adam , Sanssouci Verlag , Zurich 1955; Original title: Ina van der Beugel : Een vrouw over mannen , 1948.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete dissertation, curriculum vitae on page 80 (PDF file)
  2. ^ Ferdinand Grages: Holzmann in Africa. Construction of the Dar es Salaam - Kigoma Central Railway in East Africa. In: Yearbook for Railway History , Volume 15, Uhle & Kleimann Verlag, Lübbecke 1983.
  3. ↑ References in Google Books .
  4. ↑ Ruth Liepmann: Maybe Luck Isn't Just Chance , Cologne 1997, p. 80. [1]
  5. ↑ Lore Grages: Women design with Theodor Fontane . ( uni-frankfurt.de [accessed on February 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Grages, Lore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilbrunn, Lore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator for French and Dutch
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Dar es Salaam
DATE OF DEATH after 1933