Rowena Morse

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Rowena Morse (born June 6, 1870 in Ithaca , New York (state) , † March 3, 1958 in Chicago ) was an American theologian , philosopher and art historian . She was the first woman to receive her doctorate at the University of Jena in 1904 .

Life

Rowena Morse graduated from the State University of Iowa and received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1891 . She then taught at a high school in Omaha. From 1899 to 1901 she attended lectures at the University of Chicago before she came to Germany in 1901 to study.

There she was a guest student in Berlin for five semesters and attends lectures in theology , geology and art history with , among others, Carl Frey , Immanuel Friedländer , Adolf von Harnack , Georg Simmel and Heinrich Wölfflin .

Jena

Since her application for a doctorate was rejected in Berlin, Rowena Morse moved to Jena, where she attended courses from Rudolf Eucken , Botho Graef and Paul Weber . Encouraged by Eucken, she decided to submit her thesis On the Contradiction in the Concept of Truth in Locke's Epistemology to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena for a doctorate.

Although the University of Jena had rejected the application for a doctorate from the American Lucinda Pearl Boggs four years earlier and women were only allowed to study in Jena from 1907, it granted Rowena Morse's official doctoral application, dated June 8, 1904, on June 11, 1904 . Rowena Morse passed the oral doctoral examination on July 30, 1904 and received the overall grade "magna cum laude". The work was printed in the same year by Anton Kampf in Jena.

Morse was in Germany again in 1933: She gave philosophy lectures at the Weimar-Jena Summer Academy and is said to have been the first philosophy lecturer at a German university.

Act

Rowena Morse then returned to the United States, married the Reverend Newton M. Mann (1836–1926) in 1912 and was ordained in 1906 in Illinois . Until 1925 she worked as a pastor in various Unitarian parishes, from 1911 in Chicago, where she led the Western Unitarian Conference from 1912 to 1916 . Since 1919 she has appeared as a speaker for the Association for the League of Nations . In 1921 she became the first woman to preach at Harvard University ’s Andover Chapel . She campaigned for women's suffrage and became the leader of the women's suffrage movement in Chicago.

After her husband's death in 1926, she devoted herself more to teaching and gave lectures in the fields of sociology, politics, ethics and art. In 1933 she gave lectures at various German universities, including Jena.

Honors

The Chicago Woman's Club , of which Morse was an honorary member, donated a Rowena-Morse memorial plaque for the Thuringian State University of Jena, which was unveiled in 1933, but was later removed and lost. In 2004 a new plaque was installed in the main building of the Friedrich Schiller University in honor of the first female doctor of the Alma Mater Jenensis.

Publications

  • On the contradiction in the concept of truth in Locke's theory of knowledge , Jena 1904
  • Theories of Knowledge , 1904
  • Moral Education and the Scientific Method , 1925

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name in the English-language original text is: Weimar-Jena Summer School.
  2. ↑ http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/rowena-morse-mann/
  3. ↑ Matthias Vöckler: 350 years in male hands: 100 years ago Rowena Morse was the first woman to do her doctorate at the University of Jena . In: Clinic Board and Friends of the Clinic of the Friedrich Schiller University (ed.): Clinic Magazine - Journal of the Jena University Clinic , Jena 2004, p. 55
  4. ↑ Women's names for Jena's streets ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Catalog for the exhibition of the Towanda Jena eV women's center, Jena 2015, page 9; Retrieved February 25, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauenzentrum-jena.de
personal data
SURNAME Morse, Rowena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husband, Rowena Morse (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, philosopher and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Ithaca , New York (State)
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1958
Place of death Chicago