Rosalie Buettner

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Rosalie Büttner, 1912

Rosalie Büttner (born February 23, 1846 in Elbing ; † June 17, 1914 in Leipzig ) was a German educator and author. She was the founder and chairwoman of the Leipzig Teachers' Association and was particularly committed to the education of girls and the rights of women.

Life

Rosalie was the daughter of the PhD senior teacher and liberal democrat Hermann Büttner (1808-1878), who taught at the Heinrich von Plauen School in Elbing. After attending the secondary school for girls in Elbing, she and her siblings received private tuition from their father in order to prepare for the teacher examination, which she passed in Gdansk in 1865 .

Teaching activity

She began her professional career as a private tutor. She then worked at the higher girls' school of their native town, a few years later moved to Berlin and Schneidemühl to finally to begin her teaching career at the town's secondary school for girls in Leipzig on 10 May 1872, where it over 40 years, most recently under the directorship of the important reform educator Hugo Gaudig , taught.

In 1895 she stayed in England for a long time to perfect her English language skills. Büttner developed her own method of language didactics and wrote a three-part text and reading book for the English language for teaching in higher schools, the first part of which she also revised for teaching in community schools at the request of the school authorities. A fourth part has been published for English language students at universities.

On February 14, 1900, she received the title of senior teacher from the Saxon Ministry of Culture . In 1913 she retired.

Club work

Rosalie Büttner met Auguste Schmidt in Leipzig . Soon she was one of their closest colleagues in women's rights issues and in the work for the General German Women's Association .

In the summer of 1887 she met her colleagues Käthe Windscheid and Ida von Ungern-Sternberg in the German teachers' home in Savigny, Switzerland . The decision was made jointly to establish an association with an affiliated employment agency to promote educational training and further education and to improve the general material situation of teachers in Leipzig. The call for founding took place on May 25, 1888 in the conference room of the municipal high school for girls on Schletterplatz . Rosalie Büttner was the first chairwoman of this association for more than 22 years.

She played a key role in the founding and expansion of the municipal Leipzig teachers 'seminar, which the city council opened in 1899 as the successor to the private teachers' seminar of Auguste Schmidt, which was closed in 1892, and which was incorporated into the municipal secondary school for girls.

The association's job placement service has become an important institution. A network of telephones soon extended from Leipzig across Germany and abroad. The young professionals were no longer dependent on dubious agencies and private advertisements when looking for a job. After the founding of the General German Teachers 'Association as the umbrella organization for all teachers' associations, the Leipzig Association handed over the management of job placement to the ADLV in 1891.

On Rosalie Büttner's initiative, the Leipzig teachers' home at Hohestrasse 35 II and the Auguste Schmidt House were founded as a meeting place for various women's initiatives and a living memorial for the namesake she admires.

For her dedication, Rosalie Büttner was awarded the Saxon Order of Maria Anna .

Appreciation

“In Miss Büttner, who retired, the institution lost a teacher who had been in the service of the higher girls' school system in Leipzig for over 40 years. Belonging to the representatives of the modern women's movement, she stood up with all enthusiasm for the promotion of women's education and especially for a reliable foundation of this education through solid schooling; At the same time, she was protected from all excessiveness and culture-contrary mixing of male and female education through the sure understanding of the female character. The fine understanding of the girl's nature made her educational work on her pupils effective in a pleasing way, despite the mildness of her educational means. Long-term study of the English language, as well as the English national culture in general, made them particularly suitable to introduce our students to the understanding of the foreign language and the foreign nationality. In the last few years she had used the English language textbook, in which she had written down the results of many years of work, as a valuable aid. We were reluctant to see the parting woman step out of our labor association, because we knew and valued her love for youth, her enthusiasm for the teaching profession, her never-failing collegial attitude, her clear outlook on life and the world. "

- Hugo Gaudig : Seventh annual report of the II higher girls 'school together with the teachers' seminar in Leipzig

Works

  • The teacher. Women professions. Demands, achievements, prospects in this occupation. Kempe, Leipzig 1899.
  • Women's trade association (ed.): Auguste Schmidt. 2 speeches by Rosalie Büttner and Käthe Windscheid. Leipzig 1902.
  • English language reading and textbook based on the direct method . Parts 1-3. With supplement: German practice pieces. Röder and Schunke, Leipzig 1908.
  • English language reading and textbook based on the direct method. Dictionary for parts 1-3. Röder and Schunke, Leipzig 1909.
  • English lessons in the sense of modern endeavors based on the reading and textbook of the English language. After a lecture given in the association for foreign language teaching in Dresden and a lecture in the Leipzig teachers association. Röder and Schunke, Leipzig 1911.
  • An English Grammar for use in High Schools, Academies, Training Colleges, and higher educational institutes generally . Röder and Schunke, Leipzig 1913.
  • Leipzig teachers' association. Speech for the 25th jubilee celebration. Held on January 26, 1913. Self-published, Leipzig 1914.

literature

  • Büttner, Rosalie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 115 ( digitized version ).
  • Alma Zetzsche: Rosalie Büttner. Dedicated to your memory . In: Rosalie Büttner: Leipzig Teachers' Association. Speech for the 25th jubilee celebration. Held on January 26, 1913. Self-published, Leipzig 1914.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation by Hermann Büttner: History of the political hetairies in Athens from the time of the Cylon conspiracy to the end of the thirty. Leipzig 1840.
  2. ↑ Her sister was Mathilde Büttner, teacher and later owner of the Büttner Higher Daughter School in Leipzig- Gohlis, founded in 1882 .
  3. ↑ today: Evangelical School Center Leipzig at Gaudigplatz
  4. ↑ The Auguste Schmidt-Haus was located at Dresdner Strasse 7. It was destroyed in the Anglo-American bomb attack on Leipzig in 1943 .
  5. ↑ Seventh Annual Report of the Second Higher Girls 'School and Teachers' Seminar in Leipzig. Easter 1913 to Easter 1914 . Leipzig 1914, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Büttner, Rosalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1914
Place of death Leipzig