Marie von Najmájer

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Marie von Najmájer

Marie von Najmájer (born February 3, 1844 in Buda , Hungary , † July 25, 1904 in Bad Aussee , Austria ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Najmájer was the daughter of the royal Hungarian councilor Franz von Najmájer with a woman from Vienna . In 1852, the year her father died, her mother moved to Vienna, where the daughter learned the German language and received musical and literary support. Franz Grillparzer encouraged her to publish her first work, Snowdrop , after a friend of Najmájer's poems had presented him to him. Without being active in the women's movement herself , she campaigned for single, intellectual women: She initiated the first scholarship foundation for female students at the University of Vienna and also donated a free place at a girls' high school in Vienna. She donated generous sums to the Association of Writers and Artists Vienna .

Marie von Najmájer and Babism or Bahaism

Marie von Najmájer let herself be drawn to the epic Gurret-ül- through the life of the Persian poetess Tahirih or Qurrat al-ʿAin ( Arabic: "comfort of the eyes"), who was the first woman to accept the teachings of Bab and also gave her life for it . Inspire Eyn . This work describes the martyrdom of Bab and the cruel murder of his followers in poetry and is therefore likely to be the first work in a Western language to deal with the dramatic events of Babi and Baha'i history in a literary work. The epic also describes the meeting of a group of Babis in Badasht (Bedescht) in the summer of 1848, in which Qurrat al-ʿAyn suddenly stood unveiled in front of the assembled friends. With this she signaled the beginning of the emancipation of women and the detachment of the disciples of Bab from the Koranic law.

The life and fate of Qurrat al-ʿAin also exerted a remarkable influence on the women's movement in Austria, whose great pioneer was Marianne Hainisch , the mother of Dr. Michael Hainisch , the first Austrian Federal President. Marianne von Hainisch had a deep friendship with Marie von Najmájer, whom she had met in a meeting in 1870. The two friends got involved in school projects to give women access to higher education. Marie von Najmájer was a sponsor of the “Association for Advanced Women's Education in Vienna”.

Works

  • Snowdrop. Poems, Vienna 1868
  • Poems. New series, Vienna 1872
  • Gurret-ul-Eyn. A picture from modern Persia in 6 songs, Vienna 1874
  • Countess Ebba. A poem, Stuttgart 1877
  • A Swedish queen. Roman, Breslau 1882
  • Midsummer bonfire. A seal, Stuttgart 1888
  • New poems, Stuttgart 1891
  • The star of Navarre. Historical novel, Berlin 1900.
  • Property of the goddess, Vienna 1901
  • Emperor Julian. Tragedy in 5 acts, Vienna 1904
  • Hildegund. Ännchen von Tharau. The gold shoe. Dramatic Estate, Vienna 1907

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Hassenberger (Ed.): Austrian Kaiser Jubilee Poet Book . Eduard Hassenberger publisher, Vienna 1899, p. 172.
  2. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 226

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SURNAME Najmájer, Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Najmajer, Marie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Buda , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1904
Place of death Bad Aussee , Austria