Sophie von Scherer

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Sophie von Scherer (born February 5, 1817 in Vienna , † May 29, 1876 in Graz ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Sophie von Scherer was born in Vienna as the daughter of the master carpenter Johann Gottlieb Sockl, who also excelled as an inventor, and Sophie Sockl, née Shurer von Waldheim. Among her siblings was the painter and photographer Theodor Sockl . The staunch Catholic occupied herself with painting in her youth, but later turned to writing.

After her marriage to the civil servant Anton von Scherer, her educational and training work for women appeared in three volumes in 1848. A novelty for such a topic was the drafting in the form of a letter novel . The aim was to give the women of the better class practical instructions for raising children, but also to explain the place of women in the family and society, especially as spouses and mothers.

Sophie von Scherer advocated prudent social reforms such as B. old-age insurance, kindergartens, child welfare and child allowance, especially for service staff and socially disadvantaged families. She rejected the goals of the 1848 revolution, but benefited for her work from the freedom of the press achieved in 1848 .

Your demands for church reforms, e.g. B. for the abolition of celibacy and the introduction of divine service in German was also expressed in 1848 in an open letter to the Bishops' Conference in Würzburg. In it she criticized the free religious German Catholics, which the Bishops' Conference left unanswered, but sparked a public sibling dispute. Her criticism was answered in an open letter by her brother, the Viennese painter Theodor Sockl, who is close to the German Catholics. Her answer, also published, was a defense of her Roman Catholic. Belief. It should be their last publication.

Sophie von Scherer was the mother of Graz and Vienna church law expert Rudolf Scherer .

She is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

meaning

Sophie von Scherer is considered to be a woman who looked far ahead of her time and who emphatically propagated the idea of ​​state social security and family support long before it was actually introduced.

Works

  • Educational and educational work. Experiences from women's life for self-study for women, mothers, daughters. Gratz, 1848
  • Furthermore: Two open letters on questions of Catholic church reform:
- Open letter to the Congress of the Most Revered Archbishops and Bishops of Würzburg ... , November 17, 1848, printed and in Komm. To JA Kienreich. Styrian State Library , book number: A4Z211, Katzoom slip no.183966.
- Response to my brother's open letter addressed to me about my open letter to the Congress ... , Gratz 1848, printed by JA Kienreich, unknown location.

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personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Sophie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sockl, Sophie (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1876
Place of death Graz