Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer

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Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer

Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer (born November 3, 1779 in Bern , † August 14, 1857 in Zurich ; resident in Bern, from 1814 in Lutzenberg ) was a Swiss educator and pioneer in the education of girls .

Life

Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer was the daughter of Gottlieb Kasthofer, lawyer and procurator of the Bernese Inselspital , and of Susanne Chaillet from Neuchâtel and Murten . After finishing school, she first worked in the Inselspital. After Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi asked her to head the subsidiary in Yverdon , she finally took on this task in 1808. In 1814 she married the theologian Johannes Niederer (1779–1843), a close colleague of Pestalozzis, who had worked at Pestalozzi's educational institute since 1803. In 1837 Niederer declared the daughter institute independent due to differences with Pestalozzi and moved with the institute to Geneva the following year . Even after the death of her husband in 1843, Niederer-Kasthofer continued to run the institute until it was sold in 1847. She spent her twilight years in Zurich.

In addition to her professional activity, she wrote the first comprehensive education for girls in Switzerland: Insights into the essence of female upbringing , published in 1828. Niederer was committed to enlightenment ideas and saw the goal of ideal girls' education in an active woman.

Quote

"Just as the human race must take the task of education out of the hands of nature if it is to achieve its destiny, so the feminine sex must take the task of education out of the hands of men into its own in order to achieve its destiny."

- Rose Niederer-Kasthofer, 1828

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literature

  • Yvonne Leimgruber and Irène Keller-Richner: Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer: son activité professional et son engagement pédagogique. Yverdon-les-Bains: Center de documentation et de recherche Pestalozzi 2005.
  • Yvonne Leimgruber: On an educational mission: the pedagogue Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer (1779–1857) and her work for a "women-friendly" life in family and society. Diss. University of Halle-Wittenberg. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2006.
  • Marie Meuli: Rosette Niederer-Kasthofer (1779–1857). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, Vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 574–576 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Crotti: Female teachers - early professionalization. Professional history of primary school teachers in Switzerland in the 19th century. Bern: Lang 2005. p. 118, footnote
  2. ↑ Rose Niederer-Kasthofer: looks into the nature of female education. For educated mothers and daughters. Berlin: Rücker 1828. p. 11
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personal data
SURNAME Niederer-Kasthofer, rosette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kasthofer, Maria Rosina (maiden name); Kasthofer, rosette; Niederer-Kasthofer, rosette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator and pioneer in the education of girls
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1857
Place of death Zurich