Susanna Sophia Antoinetta van Hees
Susanna Sophia Antoinetta van Hees (* 1776 ; † 1863 ) was a school founder and philanthropist in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Life and work
From 1828 to 1848, the private Beeckmann Higher Daughter School existed in Elberfeld , which was later renamed Friedländer. This, one of the first girls' schools in the region, was founded on the initiative of Susanna Sophia Antoinetta Beeckmann (née van Hees), who after a prosperous life as the daughter of the successful pharmacist Johann Hermann Van Hees , in the period between the Napoleonic occupation and the Biedermeier , was forced to earn a living out of financial hardship. Although she had no special education, she took the initiative and started a school for the upbringing of higher bourgeois girls .
Although this initially caused problems, within a few years she managed to found a successful institute with a wide range of courses. Open to the new liberal development in the Rhenish areas of Prussia , and with the help of the young teacher Hermann Friedländer, she established one of the most successful daughter schools in the Elberfeld in the 19th century. "Antoinetta van Hees can therefore be regarded as one of the independent women who, determined by the ideas of the Enlightenment and freed by the reorganization of bourgeois existence in the Napoleonic era, took the initiative to play an independent social role," says the physicist and local historian Michael Wiescher .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hees / Wisselink. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Michael Wiescher: Susanna Sophia Antoinetta van Hees - a school founder in the early 19th century . Ed .: Essay. 2016.
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| SURNAME | Hees, Susanna Sophia Antoinetta van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | School founder and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1776 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1863 |