Mathilde Mann

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Mathilde Mann

Mathilde Mann (born February 24, 1859 in Rostock as Mathilde Charlotte Bertha Friederike Scheven, † February 14, 1925 in Rostock) was a German translator and editor , especially for Nordic languages .

Life

Mathilde Scheven was the daughter of the physician Ernst (Heinrich Carl) Scheven. With the support of her family, she learned French , English , Italian , Danish , Swedish and Norwegian . In 1878 she married the Royal Danish Consul Friedrich Johann Bernhard Mann (1853–1910), from the family that came from , among others, Thomas Mann . After her husband's grain trade went bankrupt in 1885, she saved him from prison by means of a petition. In the same year the couple settled in Copenhagen . There she began to offer her services as a translator and thus achieved a high level of awareness. With the steadily increasing emancipation and economic independence from her husband, the couple separated in 1892. The marriage resulted in Johann Bernhard Mann (1880–1945), who later became the frigate captain of the Imperial Navy; her daughter Anna Katharina (born April 15, 1879 in Rostock ; † July 14, 1943 in Copenhagen) was married to the Danish painter Oscar Matthiesen .

In 1893 she was sworn in as a translator for Nordic languages by the Rostocker Gewett (Senate) and lived in Warnemünde . In 1895 she moved to Altona , in 1906 to Hamburg . During this time she mainly worked as a translator and translated works by Henrik Ibsen and Hans Christian Andersen into German. The Danish King awarded her the Golden Medal for Art and Science in 1910 for her services to Danish literature. In 1911 she went back to Denmark.

From 1921, she worked as a lecturer for the Danish language for the University of Rostock . The official establishment of a lecturer's office failed because the responsible ministry did not provide the necessary funds. In 1924, the university honored her as the first woman without an academic career with an honorary doctorate for Dr. phil. hc Mathilde Mann died in Rostock in 1925.

Translations

literature

  • Lothar Kalbe: The translator Dr. phil. hc Mathilde Mann and the Manns in Rostock. In: Stier and Greif 12. Schwerin 2002, pp. 91-104.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6264 .
  • Michael Stübbe: The Manns. Genealogy of a German family of writers. Degener & Co, 2004, ISBN 3-7686-5189-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rostock Studies on University History, Vol. 16, Women in Science, Rostock 2011, p. 200 (online edition)
personal data
SURNAME Man, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheven, Mathilde Charlotte Bertha Friederike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1925
Place of death Rostock