Valérie de Gasparin
Valérie de Gasparin , née Boissier (born September 13, 1813 in Geneva , † June 16, 1894 in Pregny-Chambésy ) was a Reformed Swiss writer .
Life
Valérie Boissin was the daughter of the landowner Auguste-Jacques Boissier and his wife Carole Butini. At the age of fourteen she took piano lessons with Franz Liszt in Paris, but after two years she realized that she was called to write.
After her mother's death in 1836, she took part in the revival movement in western Switzerland and in 1837 married the French count Agénor Étienne de Gasparin . She wrote more than 80 literary and journalistic works, mainly on religious topics.
A central concern of her was the indissolubility of marriage according to the commandments of Christianity. From 1847 she lived with her husband in Vaude , Switzerland, and took part in the establishment of the International Red Cross through Henry Dunant .
From 1859 she fought in the name of personal freedom against the deaconess , which she accused of Catholic tendencies, and in 1859 she and her husband founded the École normal de gardes-malades in Lausanne , the first non-church school for independent nurses, from which today's clinic and La Source School was born.
Other targets of her polemical criticism were slavery in general, corruption in the state and the French war party.
She was the sister of the botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier .
Works (selection)
- Nouvelles , 1833
- Voyage d'une ignorante dans le midi de la France et l'Italie , 1835
- Le mariage du point de vue chrétien , 1843 ( French text as ZIP file )
- Camille , 1866 (novel)
- Des corporations monastiques au sein du protestantisme , 1855
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 182
Web links
- Denise Francillon: Gasparin, Valérie de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Homepage of the clinic and school La Source
- Literature by and about Valérie de Gasparin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Valérie de Gasparin in the German Digital Library
- Photograph by Cathérine Valérie de Gasparin , approx. 1892, in the digital collections of the Baden State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gasparin, Valérie de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boissier, Valérie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Reformed Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1894 |
| Place of death | Pregny-Chambésy |