Marie Luise Gothein

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Blackboard in Heidelberg, Weberstrasse 11

Marie Luise Gothein (née Schroeter; born September 12, 1863 in Passenheim ; † December 24, 1931 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian and expert in gardening .

Life

Marie Luise Gothein, b. Schroeter - wife of Eberhard Gothein , mother of Wolfgang, Percy Gothein and Werner Gothein , sister-in-law of Georg Gothein and sister of Georg Schroeter - had specialized in the history of literature and garden art of the 18th century as an autodidact since 1892 . She was forced to study on her own because women were not allowed to study at German universities in the 19th century . At least every two years she supplemented her self-study with stays of several weeks at the British Museum in London.

Marie Luise Gothein and her husband had been friends with Friedrich Gundolf since 1910 during their time in Heidelberg . It was through this friendship that he came into contact with Stefan George and the George Circle , into which his son Percy was accepted in 1919.

After the death of her husband in 1923, Marie Luise Gothein went on excursions to China , Japan and Java from 1925 and studied Indian culture. She was friends with the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer . Marie Luise Gothein is the author of the standard work History of Garden Art .

Grave in Heidelberg

In 1931 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg , in 1955 Gotheinstrasse in Heidelberg-Neuenheim was named after the Gothein couple and in 1995 a memorial plaque for the learned couple was placed at Weberstrasse 11 in Heidelberg-Neuenheim.

Quote

In his review of the work History of Garden Art , Theodor Heuss wrote in the Berliner Tageblatt of March 2, 1914:

“The path through the history of the garden becomes a walk through the garden of history. We get to know people, peoples, generations in their intimate domestic habits, in their scientific interests, their way of life and thinking, their festivity, their decoration. "

- Theodor Heuss

Fonts

  • William Wordsworth. His life, his works, his contemporaries, 2 vols., Halle as 1893
  • John Keats. Life and Works, 2 vols., O. O. 1897
  • History of garden art. Published with the support of the Royal Academy of Building in Berlin. 2 volumes. Diederichs, Jena 1914; Reprint of the 2nd edition 1926 as 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-424-013676-1 .
    • Volume 1: From Egypt to the Renaissance in Italy, Spain and Portugal ( digitized version ).
    • Volume 2: From the Renaissance in France to the present ( digitized version ).
    • English translation: A History of Garden Art. Ed. By Walter P. Wright. Translated by Laura Archer-Hind. 2 volumes. Dent, London 1928.
  • Indian gardens. Three masks, Munich 1926.
  • The city of Beijing. Your historical-philosophical development. Filser, Augsburg 1928.
  • Eberhard Gothein. A picture of life. Retold his letters. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931.

literature

  • Maria Effinger, Karin Seeber (Ed.): “It's been a wonderful time that I'm living now”. The Heidelberg scholar Marie Luise Gothein (1863–1931). An exhibition of the Heidelberg University Library (= publications of the Heidelberg University Library. Vol. 14). Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6307-9 .
  • Christine Göttler: Marie Luise Gothein (1863–1931). "Female Provinces" of Culture. In Barbara Hahn (Ed.): Women in the cultural studies. From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Hannah Arendt. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37433-6 , pp. 44-62.
  • Michael Maurer, Johanna Sänger, Editha Ulrich (eds.): “Enjoying in creating.” The correspondence between the cultural scientists Eberhard and Maria Luise Gothein (1883–1923). Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-34705-5 .
  • Michael Maurer: “Female Culture” or “Aristocracy of Spirit”? Marie Luise Gothein. In: Ute Oelmann, Ulrich Raulff (ed.): Women around Stefan George. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0513-7 , pp. 193-212.
  • Ilona Scheidle: Gothein, Marie Luise (née Schroeter). In: Hiram Kümper (ed.): Historikerinnen. A biobibliographic search for traces in the German-speaking area. Kassel 2009, pp. 84-89.
  • Clemens Siebler: Gothein, Marie Luise. In: Baden biographies . New Series, Vol. 5, pp. 99-102 ( online ).

Web links

Wikisource: Marie Luise Gothein  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Antiquariat Bibliotheca Botanica, Bonn. ZVAB accessed on August 2, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Gothein, Marie Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeter, Marie Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and gardening expert
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Passenheim
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1931
Place of death Heidelberg