Sophie Pataky

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Lexicon of German women of the pen (book cover)

Sophie Caroline Pataky b. Stipek (born April 5, 1860 in Podiebrad , Austrian Empire ; died January 24, 1915 in Meran , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian bibliographer . With its two-volume Lexicon of German Women in Feather , the first German-language writer lexicon to be published by a woman appeared in 1898.

Life

Pataky was married to the engineer and patent attorney Carl Pataky (1844-1914). In 1875 he founded a specialist metal technology publishing house in Vienna, in which Pataky worked. Otherwise she was a housewife and fully occupied with “family responsibilities”. The couple had lived in Berlin since the late 1870s and early 1880s. The women's movement was Pataky uninterested over, but took in the summer of 1896 at the International Women's Congress in Berlin City Hall part. As a result, she began to be interested in the women's issue and to research literature by and for women; As the only available lexicon of her century, she noted August von Schindel's work The German Writers of the Nineteenth Century , which, however, had already appeared in the 1820s. The lack of a continuation or a further comprehensive work or lexicon on women authors of the 19th century prompted Pataky to get in touch with women authors himself, to collect biographies of women authors since 1840 and finally to publish them in the two-volume work Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder . After almost two years of work, both volumes were published in 1898 by Carl Pataky, who, however, specialized in metal technology. Therefore, the lexicon was taken over by Verlag Schuster & Loeffler as early as 1899.

Pataky originally planned to publish the books under the title Lexicon of German Writers , but changed the title when many women who wrote refused to do any preparatory work because they did not see themselves as writers. Pataky's goal was to capture “the woman who writes in general, regardless of the form in which she expresses her intellectual activity with the pen”. Pataky presented a total of around 6,000 female authors in both volumes, many of which were represented by their addresses only. By including cookbook authors, journalists, editors, etc. a. it provided a more comprehensive picture of women who wrote than, for example, Franz Brümmer , who was also publishing at the same time .

Around 1898 Pataky was a board member of the German Association of Women Writers. At this time, based on her lexicon project, she began to compile a library with works by German-speaking authors. In this way, she had her own works sent to her by the authors presented in Deutsche Frauen der Feder , which were summarized in the library of German women's works. In 1898 Pataky had already collected over 1,000 books. In this context, there is a record of a dispute with the author Anna von Krane , who accused Pataky of wanting to enrich herself with the books. The correspondence with Krane and a few manuscripts of the project have come down to us in the archive of the German women's movement in Kassel.

Pataky and her husband lived in Merano from 1907 , where they bought and lived in the Villa Steffihof in Untermais . In the same year, Carl Pataky accepted KJ Müller as a silent partner in his publishing house. After Carl Pataky's death - he died on August 11, 1914 while on vacation in Bad Reichenhall - Müller took over the publishing house from September 1914. Sophie Pataky died of a stroke in her house in Untermais on January 24, 1915 and was buried on January 26, 1915 in the local Catholic cemetery. In her will she bequeathed 20,000 kroner to the municipal sanatorium in Merano and 10,000 kroner to the Maiser supply house. Data on further book projects are not known.

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Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with the biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms . Edited by Sophie Pataky. Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898

  • 1st volume: A-L
  • Volume 2: M-Z

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Pataky married Sophie Stipek for the second time. From his first marriage he had a daughter who first married the publisher Richard Schuster and later the publisher Ludwig Loeffler (Verlag Schuster & Loeffler). Compare Birgit Kuhbandner: Entrepreneur Between Market and Modernity: Publishers and Contemporary German-Language Literature on the Threshold of the 20th Century . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 93, 141.
  2. ↑ Cf. 132 years of installation DKZ , accessed on April 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ Preface . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms . Volume 1. Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Birgit Kuhbandner: Entrepreneur Between Market and Modernity: Publishers and contemporary German-language literature on the threshold of the 20th century . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 141.
  5. ↑ Preface . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, along with biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms . Volume 1. Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Often the wrong number 600 is mentioned, which was caused by a transmission error and which has finally found its way into various publications. Cf. Lucia Hacker: Writing women around 1900: roles - images - gestures . Lit, Berlin 2007, p. 27, footnote 13.
  7. ↑ a b See comments on the partial estate of Sophie Pataky (1860–?) In the archive of the German women's movement in Kassel , p. 3. ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / forge.fh-potsdam.de
  8. ↑ See library stamp in the Central and State Library Berlin
  9. ↑ See nachlassdatenbank.de
  10. ↑ Information from the Maiser Wochenblatt of March 27, 1915, p. 5 ( digitized version of the Teßmann library ).
personal data
SURNAME Pataky, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stipek, Sophie Caroline (maiden name); Pataky, Sophie Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bibliographer and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Podebike
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1915
Place of death Villa Steffihof, Untermais , Merano