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Margarethe Jodl
Margarethe Jodl, also Margarete, née Förster (1859–1937) was a German translator and writer who is remembered for supporting the women's movement in Austria. In November 1900, together with Yella Hertzka and three others, she founded and chaired the Viennese Women's Club (Erster Wiener Frauenklub). The organization was however not very successful and in 1903 gave way to the Neue Frauenklub (New Women's Club). Married to the German philosopher Friedrich Jodl, she supported his educational ambitions until his death in 1914. Thereafter she was active in the Viennese adult education initiative Wiener Volksbildungsverein. Biography Born on 11 August 1859 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, Margarete Förster was the daughter of the writer and art expert Karl Förster and his chamber singer wife. In 1882, she married the Munich philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl, supporting him in his educational ventures. She is remembered in particular for her activities in the Austrian wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarethe Jodl
Margarethe Jodl, also Margarete, née Förster (1859–1937) was a German translator and writer who is remembered for supporting the women's movement in Austria. In November 1900, together with Yella Hertzka and three others, she founded and chaired the Viennese Women's Club (Erster Wiener Frauenklub). The organization was however not very successful and in 1903 gave way to the Neue Frauenklub (New Women's Club). Married to the German philosopher Friedrich Jodl, she supported his educational ambitions until his death in 1914. Thereafter she was active in the Viennese adult education initiative Wiener Volksbildungsverein. Biography Born on 11 August 1859 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, Margarete Förster was the daughter of the writer and art expert Karl Förster and his chamber singer wife. In 1882, she married the Munich philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl, supporting him in his educational ventures. She is remembered in particular for her activities in the Austrian wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yella Hertzka
Yella Hertzka (née Fuchs; 4 February 1873 – 13 November 1948) was an Austrian women's rights and peace activist, school director, and music business executive. She began working in women's humanitarian and social improvement projects in 1900. Co-founding the (New Vienna Women's Club) in 1903, she served as its president from 1909 to 1933. From 1904 she participated in the international women's rights movements, supporting women's suffrage and pacifism. In 1919, she attended the Zürich congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She was a co-founder of the Austrian section of the WILPF, organized its 1921 Vienna Congress, and attended every international WILPF congress held between 1919 and 1948. She worked to free prisoners of war after World War I and during World War II helped those wanting to emigrate or oppose the draft. In 1903, Hertzka co-founded Cottage Girls' Lyceum with to facilitate women's qualifying for university entrance or prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of Vienna. Since 2005, some of the collections have been relocated within the Baroque structure of the Palais Mollard-Clary. Founded by the Habsburgs, the library was originally called the Imperial Court Library (german: Kaiserliche Hofbibliothek); the change to the current name occurred in 1920, following the end of the Habsburg Monarchy and the proclamation of the Austrian Republic. The library complex includes four museums, as well as multiple special collections and archives. Middle Ages The institution has its origin in the imperial library of the Middle Ages. During the Medieval period, the Austrian Duke Albert III (1349–1395) moved the books of the Viennese vaults into a library. Albert also arranged for important works from La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Jodl
Friedrich Jodl (23 August 1849 – 26 January 1914) was a German philosopher and psychologist. Biography Friedrich Jodl grew up in a Munich family association which, due to its proximity to the royal court, had provided numerous senior civil servants in Bavaria. The painter Heinrich Bürkel, a family friend, introduced him to the fine arts at an early age. Jodl began studying history and art history in Munich in 1867, but above all philosophy. His academic teachers included the philosophers Karl von Prantl, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Huber and Moriz Carrière. He received his PhD in 1872 with a thesis on David Hume. Jodl was then a lecturer at the Bavarian War Academy in Munich. After qualifying as a professor in philosophy, he accepted a professorship at the German University in Prague in 1885. In 1896 he took over a chair in philosophy at the University of Vienna and also taught aesthetics at the TU Wien, Technical University of Vienna. He was also a member of the Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Saxony
The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony. From 1871, it was part of the German Empire. It became a free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony. History Napoleonic era and the German Confederation Before 1806, Saxony was part of the Holy Roman Empire, a thousand-year-old entity that had become highly decentralised over the centuries. The rulers of the Electorate of Saxony of the House of Wettin had held the title of elector for several centuries. When the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in August 1806 following the defeat of Emperor Francis II by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Lang
Marie Lang (8 March 1858 – 14 October 1934) was an Austrian feminist, theosophist and publisher. Born in 1858 in Vienna, Lang was raised in a liberal, upper-middle-class home. After divorcing her first husband in 1884, she married Edmund Lang and the two hosted an influential salon for politicians and intellectuals. Joining the women's movement toward the end of the 1880s, she quickly became an influential women's rights activist. In 1893, along with Auguste Fickert and Rosa Mayreder, she founded the ''Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein'' (General Austrian Women's Association). In spite of provisions in Section 30 of the law governing associations, which prohibited women's political involvement, the three friends used their networks of influential politicians and intellectuals to press for legal changes in laws governing women and children's civil rights and in favor of women's suffrage. In 1898, she co-founded the women's journal ''Dokumente der Frauen'' (''Women's Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Scheu-Riesz
Helene Scheu-Riesz (18 September 1880 – 8 January 1970) was an Austrian women's rights activist, pacifist, children's writer and publisher. In addition to supporting the Austrian women's movement, in November 1900 together with Yella Hertzka and three others she founded the Viennese Women's Club (Erster Wiener Frauenklub). She later became active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, representing Austria at the organization's 1919 international congress in Zürich, the 1921 congress in Vienna and the 1924 congress in Washington, D.C. Scheu-Riesz took a special interest in children's literature, translating and writing books herself and founding the publishing house in 1923. After the death of her husband, the Austrian intellectual and social democrat politician , as she was of Jewish heritage, in 1937 she moved to the United States. There she created the publishing house Island Press on the remote Ocracoke, North Carolina, Ocracoke Island. She founded Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Stockert-Meynert
Dora von Stockert-Meynert, born Theodora Meynert (May 5, 1870 – February 24, 1947), was an Austrian writer, poet and playwright. Life Dora von Stockert-Meynert was the daughter oJohanna Meynert(1837-1879), the co-founder and first president of the Vienna Housewives Association, and the psychiatrist and university teacher Theodor Meynert. Her grandfather was the writer and critic Hermann Meynert. In 1889 she married the civil servant Leopold von Stockert (1860-1938). They had four children, the daughters Emmi, Dorit and Margarethe and the son Franz Günther von Stockert, who worked as a psychiatrist. In 1901 she published her first novel, ''Grenzen der Kraft'' ("Limits of Power"). She founded Panthea, the Association of Women's Artistic Organizations, and was a member of Concordia, an association of Austrian writers and journalists founded in 1859, which later became part of the Concordia Press Club, and a member of International PEN. After the end of the First World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Births
Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final unification takes place on December 1, 1918; Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time). * January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Washington Territory of the United States of America. * February 2 – Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the ''Codex Sinaiticus'', a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt. * February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * February 12 – The Mekteb-i Mülkiye School is founded in the Ottoman Empire. * February 17 – French naval forces under Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Dresden
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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