Louise Tesdorpf

Emilie Louise Tesdorpf , also: Luise , geb. Oppenheimer , pseudonym Gabriel Strand (born September 1, 1835 in Lübeck , † April 12, 1919 ibid) was a German writer.

Live and act

She was the oldest child of Dr. jur. Georg Friedrich Ludwig Oppenheimer , who later became a judge of higher appeal at the higher appeal court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck. Her mother died in 1846. In 1855 she married the merchant Hermann Matthäus Tesdorpf (1833–1868) from the Lübeck patrician family Tesdorpf in Rio de Janeiro . After his untimely death, she returned to Europe in 1868, widowed. Until 1878 she took care of the upbringing of her three sons, including Ludwig Tesdorpf , in Jena

The impressions she gained on her travels abroad and the lively intellectual life of the university city of Jena encouraged her poetic creative drive. In the years 1868 to 1878 a number of novels, short stories and essays were written, which later found their way into magazines and newspaper feature sections. From 1878 to 1888 she returned to Lübeck and founded the Association for the Promotion of Female Vocational Training and Employment here in 1881 together with like-minded women . In 1887 she took a six-month trip to Italy with her youngest son and then lived with him in Karlsruhe until 1891 . After a fire had destroyed the house and all of her manuscripts there, she returned with her youngest son to Lübeck, where she lived in Beckergrube 3.

Fonts

• Atalanta van der Hege: novel. 1885
• Hadrian: a tragedy in 5 acts. Lübeck: Max Schmidt 1885.
• Julia Alpinula: A tragedy in five acts. 1888
• Works. 5 volumes, Lübeck [or] Berlin & Stuttgart, Verlag Various, [1885] - 1892

literature

• Tesdorpf, Mrs. Luise . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 360 ( digitized version ).
• Beach, Gabriel . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 342 ( digitized version ).

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