Mary Hegeler Carus

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Mary Hegeler Carus (born January 10, 1861 in La Salle , Illinois ; † June 27, 1936 there ; originally: Marie Hermine Henriette Hegeler ) was an American engineer and entrepreneur.

Life

Hegeler-Carus Mansion, the family villa and headquarters of the publishing house The Open Court

Mary Hegeler was the first of a total of ten children to be born to German immigrants in La Salle, Illinois. Her father, Edward Carl Hegeler (1835–1910), had built up the Matthiessen-Hegeler Zinc Company in La Salle with his college friend Frederick William Matthiessen , her mother, Camilla Weisbach Hegeler (1835–1908), was the daughter of Freiberg professor Julius Weisbach (1806-1871). Both met during Hegeler's studies at the Bergakademie Freiberg , and in 1860 they married.

Even as a child, Mary Hegeler was interested in her father's zinc works and what goes on in the smelting furnaces. She started working for the company at the age of 16. She graduated from the University of Michigan and became the first woman to graduate from that university in 1882 with a bachelor's degree in engineering.

In February 1885 she applied to study at the Bergakademie Freiberg . A letter of recommendation from her cousin Clemens Winkler ensured that her application was approved and that she was the first woman to be legally enrolled. From April 1885 to Easter 1886 Mary Hegeler studied in Freiberg. Although her performance was very good, she was not allowed to graduate because she was a woman.

In the summer of 1886 she returned to La Salle. At the age of only 25 she became part of the management of her father's company, which now employed between 700 and 800 people. Edward Carl Hegeler increasingly devoted himself to his interest in religion and philosophy and founded the Open Court Publishing Company , a publishing house specializing in precisely these subjects. He started The Open Court magazine in 1887 and The Monist in 1890 . The chief editor became the philosopher Paul Carus , who married Mary Hegeler in 1888.

Between 1889 and 1901, Mary Hegeler Carus gave birth to seven children; the firstborn son died at birth. In 1903 she became CEO of the Matthiessen-Hegeler Zinc Company , after her father concentrated mainly on his work as a publisher and her brothers Julius and Herman wanted to secretly sell the company.

After her husband's death in 1919, she took over the editing of The Open Court and The Monist . She published the Series Carus Lectures and in cooperation with the Mathematical Association of America , the series The Carus mathematical monographs .

Mary Hegeler Carus died on June 27, 1936 after a brief illness.

The TU Bergakademie Freiberg has been awarding the Mary Hegeler Scholarship since 2012, which supports young female scientists in their habilitation or post-doctoral phase.

literature

  • David Eugene Smith: Mary Hegeler Carus, 1861-1936 . In: The American Mathematical Monthly . Vol. 44/1937 / No. 5, pp. 280-283. doi : 10.2307 / 2301880
  • Birgit Seidel: ... this Smith! In: Journal for friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . 17/2010, pp. 181–182 ( online edition )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Raymond Lohne: Mary Hegeler Carus (1861-1936)
  2. ↑ a b http://tu-freiberg.de/sites/default/files/media/gleichstellung-chancengleichheit--familienfreund-an-der-tu-bergakademie-freiberg-482/ausstellung_studentinnen_und_wissenschaftlerinnen.pdf Students at the (TU ) Bergakademie Freiberg, p. 3
  3. ↑ Birgit Seidel: ... this Smith! . In: Journal for friends and sponsors of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . 17/2010, pp. 181-182
  4. ↑ http://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mary-hegeler-carus/homecoming-and-new-horizons
  5. ↑ http://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mary-hegeler-carus/family-life-and-motherhood
  6. ↑ http://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mary-hegeler-carus/a-business-executive
  7. ↑ http://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mary-hegeler-carus/editor-of-the-open-court-publi
  8. ↑ http://tu-freiberg.de/presse/universitaet-verzut-mary-hegeler-stipendium-zur-foerderung-junger-wissenschaftlerinnen
personal data
SURNAME Hegeler Carus, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegeler, Mary; Hegeler, Marie Hermine Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH La Salle , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1936
Place of death La Salle , Illinois