Ottilie von Bistram
Ottilie Alexandrine Helene Freiin von Bistram (born July 8, 1859 in Riga , † July 19, 1931 in Bayreuth ) was a German suffragette and writer.
Life
She was born in Riga as the daughter of Konstantin Friedrich Johann Freiherr von Bistram , Herr auf Krottuschen. Just a few years after her birth, the family moved to Dresden , where Bistram grew up and was educated. Later she devoted herself to studies in literature, art history, anatomy and orthopedics and passed a state examination. After completing his training, Bistram moved to Switzerland .
She was increasingly concerned with the role of women and advocated an extended schooling for girls. In women's education, women's studies , she demanded the right of women to university education in 1893. At the International Women's Congress in Berlin in 1897, she gave a lecture on The First Girls 'Gymnasium in Karlsruhe and subsequently appeared regularly at girls' high schools with lectures, with which "she made a name for herself [among contemporaries]". In a public publication she dealt with the anti-feminist work On the Physiological Nonsense of Woman by Paul Julius Möbius , who then refers to her reply in the foreword in the 5th edition of his work, but describes the work as "too disorganized", "So that I could give an extract."
Bistram, who had traveled around the world with her parents when she was a child, also regularly traveled to various countries in later years, where she studied the social situation of women. She published her results in the form of travel sketches in newspapers and magazines. In addition, articles on the question of women appeared , but also stories and poems in print. Around 1900 she was the chairwoman of the “Women's Education Department” in Wiesbaden.
She died in Bayreuth in 1931.
Works (selection)
- 1893: women's education, women's studies
- 1897: The first girls' high school in Karlsruhe
- 1899: On the question of women
- 1900: the woman of the new century
- Ibsen's Nora and the true emancipation of women. Lecture. Lützenkirchen & Bröcking, Wiesbaden 1900.
literature
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
- Bistram, Ottilie von . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 28.
- Bistram, Baroness Ottilie von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 73 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 243 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ottilie von Bistram. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Pataky, p. 74.
- ↑ Paul Julius Möbius: About the physiological nonsense of women . 5th revised edition. Marhold, Halle a. P. 1903, p. 6.
- ↑ Friedrichs, p. 28.
- ^ In: The International Congress for Women's Work and Women's Movement in Berlin, September 19-26, 1896: A collection of the lectures and speeches given at the congress . Walther 1897.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bistram, Ottilie von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bistram, Ottilie Alexandrine Helene Freiin von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German women's rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1931 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |