Therese Bousset

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Therese Bousset (born July 16, 1811 ) was the director and owner of a boarding school for girls in Lübeck , where Julia da Silva-Bruhns , the mother of Thomas and Heinrich Mann , was educated after their mother's death.

Life

Therese Bousset was the wife / widow of the early deceased wine merchant Joachim Christian Bousset. She was related by marriage to the Lübeck pastor family Bousset .

Literary reception

Together with her mother, Therese Bousset served as a model for the character Sesemi Weichbrodt in the 1901 novel Buddenbrooks: Decay of a Family by Thomas Mann . She is the head of the local girls' boarding school, where the fictional characters Tony Buddenbrook and Gerda Arnoldsen from Amsterdam spend a few years.

In his novel Between the Races , Heinrich Mann uses the example of Sesemi Weichbrodt for Erneste , the governess of the main character Lola Gabriel .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Bousset, Lübeck, at: ancestry.de
  2. ↑ Bärbel Ehrmann-Köpke: "Demonstrative idleness" or "restless activity" ?: Handicraft women in the Hanseatic middle class of the 19th century. Internationale Hochschulschriften Volume 546, Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2010; P. 201, footnote 139. ISBN 978-3-8309-2368-8 . ( Google Books ).
  3. ^ To the Lübeck archive
  4. ↑ Google books : Roland Harweg: Fiction and double reality: Studies on the double existence of novel and short story locations using the example of the early work of Thomas Mann , p. 162
  5. ↑ Description of the Buddenbrooks figures on thomasmann.de.
  6. ↑ a b Thomas spokesman, Cornelia Bernini (Ed.): Hans Wysling - Selected essays 1963-1995. Thomas Mann Studies, Volume thirteenth, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 1996; P. 143. ISBN 3-465-02859-7 . ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Bousset, Therese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century