Wilhelmine Halberstadt
Elisabeth Friederike Wilhelmine Halberstadt (born January 24, 1776 in Korbach , † March 11, 1841 in Kassel ) was a German educator and writer .
origin
Wilhelmine Halberstadt was born as the daughter of the lawyer Carl Franz Halberstadt and Marie Christiane Schmidt. Her parents came from very wealthy families, and her father was also a landowner in America. The paternal grandparents were the senior pension master Johann Henrich Halberstadt in Kassel and Catharina Elisabeth Heppe. Wilhelmine's father last worked as a legal scholar and secretary for a Prince Reuss. He never came back from a trip to America, where he sold his lands, and has been considered lost ever since.
The maternal grandparents were the Hochfürstliche Hof pharmacist Johann Adolf Schmidt, founder of the Hirschapotheke in Korbach , and Sophie Friederike geb. Freiin Forstmeister von Gelnhausen . Furthermore, she was a distant cousin of Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , since Wilhelmine's maternal great-grandmother Anna Maria Schmidt was born in Varnhagen . Wilhelmine's mother was very attached to her aristocratic origin and the values derived from it.
Life
Wilhelmine founded various girls' schools in Lübeck , Trier and Kassel , which were initially aimed at so-called " higher daughters ". It gained particular importance through the establishment of the Halberstadt free school for poor girls, named after it, in which it accepted socially disadvantaged girls and enabled them to receive vocational training . She also set up the Halberstadt'sche Fräulein Foundation for fatherless daughters, a kind of pension insurance for women.
She was already a famous woman during her lifetime and was mentioned in the same breath as August Hermann Francke in the 19th century . In Kassel a Wilhelmine-Halberstadt-Straße commemorates them.
Fonts
She published various books on the education of girls and also wrote for the general school newspaper about the education of girls, including:
- Painting of domestic bliss for virgins , volume 1, Frankfurt am Main 1820
- Thoughts of an educator on the formation of feelings and the religion of the mind , in: Allgemeine Schulzeitung, No. 101/102 of August 30 and September 1, 1825.
- Letters about morality, dignity and destiny of women. Dedicated to young women, Kassel 1825
literature
- Ernst Kelchner : Halberstadt, Wilhelmine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 401-403.
- Erika Hoffmann: Halberstadt, Wilhelmine. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 533 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halberstadt, Wilhelmine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Halberstadt, Elisabeth Friederike Wilhelmine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1841 |
| Place of death | kassel |