Marie Jorns

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Marie Jorns (born March 28, 1883 in Hanover ; † June 1, 1975 there ) was a German art historian .

Life

Marie Jorn was the daughter of one of Osterode am Harz coming owner of a copper - rolling mill and the sister of the social politician Auguste Jorn . Similar to them, she began her studies, initially at the (today's) Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau , then in Berlin , only at an advanced age. After almost 40 years of life , after the First World War , she received her doctorate in 1921 at the Philosophical Faculty in Heidelberg on the subject of the medieval brotherhoods in Lower Saxony as a patron of art .

Since April 1, 1925, Marie Jorns became a research assistant at the August Kestner Museum and focused on the subject of autographs . In particular, she researched the life and work of August Kestner .

Fonts

  • Marie Jorns: August Kestner and his time. 1777 - 1853. The happy life of the diplomat, art collector and patron in Hanover and Rome. From letters and Diaries compiled , Hanover: Madsack, 1964
  • Marie Jorns: From the life of Johann Christian Kestner and Lotte, born Buff in Hanover , lecture given on the Buff-Kestner family day, Wetzlar, June 5, 1955, in the series Library of Family History Works , Vol. 21, Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener, 1956
  • Marie Jorns: The medieval brotherhoods in Lower Saxony as patrons of art , at the same time dissertation at the University of Heidelberg 1921, excerpt from: Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg , 1920/21, part 1

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Hugo Thielen: Jorns, (2) Marie (see literature)
  2. Dirk Böttcher : Jorns, (1) Auguste. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 189
  3. Information from the German National Library