Marie Pauline Thorbecke

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Marie Pauline Thorbecke (* August 12, 1882 in Aurich as Marie Pauline Berthold, † 1971 in Freiburg an der Niederelbe ) was a German ethnologist, photographer and painter.

Live and act

Marie Pauline Thorbecke was the wife of the German geographer Franz Thorbecke . From 1911 to 1913 she took part in a comprehensive research expedition of the German Colonial Society led by her husband to what was then the colony of Cameroon . She illustrated his publications and in 1914 published her own travel diary Auf der Savanne . She made a significant contribution to her husband's academic work, especially after he was almost blind. In 1927 she painted a portrait of Carl Uhlig , which now hangs in the professors' gallery in Tübingen . A portrait of the Heidelberg geography professor Alfred Hettner from 1928 bears the same signature as MP Thorbecke.

In 1949 she offered her husband's library to the University and City Library of Cologne, which accepted the offer in collaboration with the university. After their joint expedition to Cameroon, she and her husband donated a large ethnographic collection to the city of Mannheim in return for a travel allowance of 10,000 marks. The collection is now part of the Reiss Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim. She donated her ethnographic photographs of the trip to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne . These were original glass plate negatives that were used as illustration material for lectures by the museum's scientists. In 1951 she was elected honorary chairman of the Geography Society in Cologne.

literature

  • Anna Pytlik: Dreams in the Tropical Light. Researchers on the move. Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow in Oceania 1906–1910, Marie Pauline Thorbecke in Cameroon 1911–1913. Coyote, Reutlingen 1997, ISBN 3-9805702-0-7
  • Bernd Wiese: World Views: Illustrations of research trips by German geographers in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Graphics, painting, photography; the reality of the illustration? (= Writings of the University and City Library Cologne ; Volume 21), University and City Library, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931596-58-3 .
  • Andreas Freitäger: Franz Thorbecke (1875–1945) . In: Gernot Gabel and Wolfgang Schmitz (eds.): Cologne collectors and their book collections in the University and City Library of Cologne. Scholars, diplomats, entrepreneurs , Cologne, University and City Library 2003, pp. 150–159, ISBN 3-931596-25-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Colonial geography: Marie Pauline and Franz Thorbecke.
  2. ^ A b University of Cologne, University and City Library Cologne: Biographical Notes on Franz Thorbecke. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ub.uni-koeln.de
  3. ↑ Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927 (= writings of the Verein für Württembergische Familienkunde , volume 2), published by K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart, 1927, DNB 362648840
  4. ↑ Light and shadow: To the photo collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde.
  5. ^ Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Mechthild Leutner: Women in the German colonies. Ch. Links, Berlin 2009, p. 53, ISBN 978-3-86153-526-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Thorbecke, Marie Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold, Marie Pauline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist, photographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Freiburg on the Lower Elbe