Sophie Luise Schulz-Euler

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Sophie Luise Schulz-Euler , called Sofia , née Sophie Euler (born January 7, 1847 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 7, 1926 in Stuttgart , buried in Frankfurt) was a German writer.

Life

Sofia Schulz-Euler was the daughter of the Secret Justice Council Dr. jur. Ludwig Heinrich Euler, a Frankfurt lawyer and historian, and Jacobina Maria Cornelia Euler, b. Roebuck. Her father was a descendant of the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler . She spent her school and boarding days in her hometown. In 1867 she went to Essen and married the industrialist Carl Gustav Schulz, founder of the Rheinische Metallwarenfabrik and a close relative of Alfred Krupp. After the death of her husband in 1889, she moved back to Frankfurt. There she began to devote herself to writing. At first she wrote poetic riddles for Frankfurt newspapers, but soon she was publishing novels, short stories and poems, which often had a historical or family history thematic focus. She was influenced by personalities such as Ellen Key , Bertha von Suttner , Richard Dehmel , Rudolf Greinz , Detlev von Liliencron and Hugo Salus , who frequented her house regularly. In addition to her work as a writer, she was one of the founders of the Women's Education Association , the Frankfurt Women's Club and, together with Caroline Valentin , the Association for People's Kindergartens. After the death of her mother in 1908, she gave up her household in Frankfurt and traveled for years, mostly in Italy and Switzerland . Only forced to return to Germany after an eye operation, she recently lived in seclusion in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart , where she was looked after by her younger son Carl Friedrich Schulz-Euler (pseudonym: Hanns Wolfgang Rath) until her death.

Works

  • 1901 - Cum tempore. From old and new times. Frankfurt family and contemporary stories
  • 1903 - The beautiful Gritt (novellas)
  • 1903 - life (poems)
  • 1905 - Am Pfaffengarten (novel)
  • 1906 - To wonder (2nd edition, published anonymously)
  • 1906 - to be burned unread (published anonymously)
  • 1907 - Leonhard Euler (biography)
  • 1913 - The Durrlachers (novel, published anonymously)

literature

  • Sabine Hock : Schulz-Euler, Sofia in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (edited online version), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 351 .
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: Schulz-Euler, Sofia , in: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. (= Repertories on German literary history. Volume 9), Stuttgart 1981, p. 282.
  • Theo Schäfer (Ed.): Schulz, Sofia , in: Frankfurter Dichterbuch . Frankfurt a. M. 1905, p. 492.
  • Franz Brümmer (Ed.): Schulz, Sofia , in: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers. Seventh volume. 6th edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 346f.
  • Werner Schude (Ed.): Schulz, Sofia , in: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. De Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 1917, p. 1560.
  • Werner Schude (Ed.): Schulz, Sofia , in: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. De Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 1926, p. 912.
  • Obituary by Anna Hagen-Treichel, in: Frankfurter Zeitung of September 25, 1926 and Frankfurter Nachrichten and Intellektivenblatt of September 11, 1926.

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personal data
SURNAME Schulz-Euler, Sophie Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Euler, Sophie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1926
Place of death Stuttgart