Marie Gebhard

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Marie Gebhard (* 1832 in Dublin , Ireland as Francis Catherine Mary L'Estrange ; † December 15, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German theosophist .

Life

Mary L'Estrange married the factory owner and Persian consul Gustav Gebhard in New York on September 8, 1852 . The marriage resulted in six sons and one daughter. Together with her husband, she was a follower of theosophy and was interested in esoteric and occultism .

With Eliphas Levi friends, she learned from this the basics of using epistolary teaching Kabbalah know. In 1871 Lévi was a guest at the Gebhard's house in Elberfeld for a few weeks .

In 1883 she joined the London Lodge and thus the Theosophical Society (TG). On July 27, 1884, the theosophical lodge Germania was founded in their house with Wilhelm Hübbe Schleiden as president. Marie took over the office of Vice President, her husband Gustav was treasurer and her son Franz Gebhard was secretary. Henry Steel Olcott , one of the founders of TG, was also present at the founding event. Two weeks later, Helena Blavatsky , the second founding member of the TG, arrived in Elberfeld and stayed there for around two months. Blavatsky stayed again from May 10 to July 8, 1886 with the Gebhards.

The house of the Gebhards served as one of the most important meeting places and thus a source of inspiration in the early years of the TG in Germany. In addition to Blavatsky and Olcott, the theosophists Franz Hartmann , Francesca Arundale and Constance Wachtmeister also met in their house .

Son Arthur Gebhard (1855-1944) was also a theosophist and, together with William Quan Judge , founded the theosophical journal The Path in New York in April 1886 . Son Rudolf Ernst Gebhard (1857–1935) was also a member of the TG.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 1325/1892
  2. ↑ http://blavatskyarchives.com/barborkaglossarytheosophical.htm
  3. ↑ http://tonh.net/theosofie/hpb_cw_online/articles/v6/y1884_045.htm
  4. ^ A b Daniel Caldwell: The mysterious world of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky . Aquamarin Verlag, Grafing 2003, ISBN 3-89427-235-X . (Page 383)
  5. ↑ a b http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl313.html
  6. ↑ http://www.theohistory.org/description-of-issues/descript_of_issues_v5.html
personal data
SURNAME Gebhard, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt, Marie; Gebhard, Mary; L'Estrange, Francis Catherine Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1892
Place of death Berlin