Wilhelmine Althaber

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Wilhelmine Althaber (born June 12, 1841 in Greifswald , † May 28, 1917 in Bonn ) was a German writer and educator.

Life

Althaber attended a secondary school for girls in Greifswald and trained as a teacher. In 1866 she passed the state examination for teachers and worked for the next 25 years as a primary school teacher. From 1874 she was employed at a school in Remscheid . She began to deal intensively with Catholicism and converted to Catholicism around 1891. This resulted in her early retirement. She began to write religious and instructive treatises and was an employee of "Germania" and a member of the "German Association of Women Writers". From the beginning of the 1890s until her death, she lived in Bonn.

Works

  • From the wrong path to the truth. My life of faith in the past and present (1893)
  • Consequences of medical consultation hours (comedy, 1899)
  • The Harmless Club (Posse, 1900)
  • Original celebratory poems for monasteries and boarding schools (1901)

literature

  • Althaber, Wilhelmine . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 8 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 52.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 4.

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personal data
SURNAME Althaber, Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1917
Place of death Bonn