Maria Magdalena Hampel

Maria Magdalena Hampel (born April 4, 1839 in Warnsdorf , Kingdom of Bohemia , † after 1876) was a German teacher for calligraphy , music and painting in Dresden and inventor of a disc hand against writing cramps .

Life

Maria Magdalena Hampel came from northern Bohemia and was born on April 4, 1839 in the town of Warnsdorf, on the border with the Kingdom of Saxony , as the daughter of a local machine and rifle manufacturer. She left school at the age of 11 and went to the conservatory in the Saxon residence city of Dresden. Here she was trained in music in particular by the music teacher and professor Friedrich Wieck , Clara Schumann's father . However, Maria Magdalena Hampel not only stayed with music, she also turned to painting and calligraphy at the age of 17 and then worked as a freelance writing teacher in Dresden. She gave, among other things, courses in speed and calligraphy and art painting according to her own, easily comprehensible and surprising results leading method in her Dresden apartment, Ottostraße 4. In 1876 she conducted her courses in the new apartment Amalienstraße 8 in Dresden and now called himself a doctor of writer's cramps .

In 1866 she invented an apparatus for writing cramps that was shaped like a writing hand. For this helpful invention, she received jewelry from the King of Saxony in 1870. As an occasion for this award, the king took the presentation of their publication Instructions for the thorough learning of beautiful and familiar handwriting and proper pen position, as well as for radical elimination of spelling cramps, hand tremors and various mists that bothers while writing, with the help of the author and her patented "writing hand". For school and self-teaching. In 8 lessons . Leipzig, 1870. The first booklet of this book was presented to the King of Saxony.

In the following years Maria Magdalena Hampel became known mainly for the elaboration of calligraphic regulations, progressing from easy to difficult . In 1873 some Americans presented her with valuable mosaic jewelry as thanks and recognition as a thank you for the lessons and the healing of the extremely annoying writer's cramp.

She remained unmarried for many years.

In the Saxon Writer's Lexicon , which appeared in 1875, she was included as one of eight female writers compared to 231 male writers.

literature

• Wilhelm Haan : Saxon writer's lexicon. Alphabetical compilation of the scholars, writers and artists currently living in the Kingdom of Saxony, along with brief biographical notes and evidence of their writings that have appeared in print , Leipzig, Robert Schaefer's Verlag, 1875, p. 116.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Volksfreund , 1862, p. 523.
2. ↑ Saxon village newspaper. City and Country Indicator , 1876, p. 8.
3. ^ Sächsische Dorfzeitung, Anzeiger für Stadt und Land , Vol. 35, 1873, p. 7.
4. ^ Wilhelm Haan : Saxon Writer's Lexicon. Alphabetical compilation of the scholars, writers and artists currently living in the Kingdom of Saxony, along with brief biographical notes and evidence of their writings that have appeared in print , Leipzig, Robert Schaefer's Verlag, 1875, p. 116.