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World's Congress Of Representative Women
The World's Congress of Representative Women was a week-long convention for the voicing of women's concerns, held within Art Institute of Chicago Building, the World's Congress Auxiliary Building in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States in May 1893.Maddux 2019, p.58. At 81 meetings, organized by women from each of the United States, 150,000 people came to the World's Congress Auxiliary Building and listened to speeches given by almost 500 women from 27 countries.Smith 2000, p. 354. The World's Congress of Representative Women was arranged, sponsored and promoted by the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition, Board of Lady Managers of the World's Congress Auxiliary, under the guidance of President Bertha Palmer, the wife of prominent Chicagoan Potter Palmer. The men of the Auxiliary formed seventeen departments and held more than 100 congresses with a variety of political, social and technical agendas; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indianapolis
Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion County. Indianapolis is situated in the state's central till plain region along the west fork of the White River (Indiana), White River. The city's official slogan, "Crossroads of America", reflects its historic importance as a transportation hub and its relative proximity to other major North American markets. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the Indianapolis (balance), balance population was 887,642. Indianapolis is the List of United States cities by population, 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the third-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest after Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, and the fourth-most populous state capital in the nation after Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Austin, Texas, Austin, and Columbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Henschke
Ulrike Henschke (24 November 1830 – 1 November 1897, Baden-Baden) was a German women's rights activist, advocate of secondary and vocational education for women and founder of the Victoria Continuation School, a technical college for women. She was also an accomplished author, including writing the novel ''Gertrud von Stein'' under the pseudonym Clara Ulrici. Bibliography Ulrike Henschke was born on 24 November 1830 in the town of Krotoszyn in Prussia. She was a member of the Lette-Verein, which strove to expand education across the country, particularly to those who had previously not had the opportunity to receive higher education. Through her work with the society, Henschke set up the "Dienstmädchenfortbildung", or training scheme for domestic servants. Subsequently, she founded the Viktoria-Fortbildungsschule, or Victoria Continuation School, a technical college in Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Schubert-Feder
Clair or Claire may refer to: People and fictional characters * Claire (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Clair or Claire * Clair (surname), a list of people with the surname Clair or Claire Places * Clair, New Brunswick, Canada, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick, Canada * Clair, Saskatchewan, Canada * Clair oilfield in the Atlantic Ocean, 75 km west of Shetland Arts and entertainment * Claire (band), an electronic-pop band using English lyrics from Munich, Germany * ''Claire'' (album), a 2002 album by Claire Sweeney * "Clair" (song), a 1972 hit for Gilbert O'Sullivan * ''Claire'' (1924 film), a German silent film * ''Claire'' (2001 film), a fantasy film * ''Claire'' (2007 film), written by Drew Seeley * "Claire", an episode of American radio and television anthology series ''Screen Directors Playhouse'' * "Claire", an episode of ''The Good Doctor'' * '' Clair Obscur: Expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius (14 February 1834 – 25 August 1911) was the first female dentist in Germany. She was born at Sylt, a small island on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S .... However, as there were no dental schools in Germany when she wished to attend (dental training in Germany then was through preceptorships) she attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery starting in 1867 and graduating in 1869. She was the first woman to take a full college course in dentistry, as Lucy Hobbs Taylor received credit for her time in dental practice before attending dental college. Having been assured by the Minister of Public Instruction in Germany that she would be allowed to practice in Germany if she earned her diploma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Crain
Lucie Crain (fl. 1891), was a German women's rights activist and educator. She played a significant part in the history of women's education in Germany. She is known as the founder of the '' Crainschen Anstalten'' in Berlin, often referred to as the leading ''Höhere Töchternschulen'' (women's college Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male st ...) in the German Empire. References * Gudrun Wedel: Lehren zwischen Arbeit und Beruf. Einblicke in das Leben der Autobiographinnen im 19. Jh. Köln et al. 2000, 243. 19th-century German educators German women's rights activists {{feminism-activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Lange
Helene Lange was born in 1848 in Oldenburg (city), Oldenburg. Through her determination, she rose above the trials of her early life, including the loss of her parents, to become a leading voice for women's access to higher education and professional careers, particularly in teaching. She helped motivate the establishment of thFrauenbewegung or women's movement, in Germany. She worked constantly to raise the standards of education among women, believing that social progress was impossible without equal educational opportunities being given to women. Life and education In addition to her work as an educator, Lange was also active in politics and social reform. In 1890, she founded the :de:Allgemeiner_Deutscher_Lehrerinnenverein, Allgemeiner Deutscher Lehrerinnenverein a general association of German female teachers, which was a network that fought for women educators to improve their working conditions and have more access to leading positions in the field. The work of Lange was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Morgenstern
Lina Morgenstern (25 November 1830 – 16 December 1909) was a German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist. Biography She was born 25 November 1830 in Wrocław (German Breslau) to a Jewish family committed to social causes. In 1854 she married Theodor Morgenstern (1827–1910), and they moved to Berlin.Zabel, Hans-Henning (1997).Morgenstern, Lina" ''Neue deutsche Biographie''. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. vol. 18, p. 109-111. The couple had five children – three daughters (Clara, Olga, and Martha) and two sons (Michael and Alfred). Morgenstern first started writing articles about education and children's care in order to contribute to the family's income, when her husband had financial problems. In 1859, the same year that her third child, Olga, was born, she and Adolf Lette founded the ''Berliner Frauen-Verein zur Beförderung der Fröbel’schen Kindergärten'' (Berlin women's association for the advancement of Fröbelian kindergartens), which advocated for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabet Kaselowsky
Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew name (), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint. Occurrence in the Bible "Elizabeth" appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Aaron's wife ("Elisheva" in the Hebrew Bible), and in the New Testament as the name of the wife of the priest Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. It has also been the name of several saints and queens. Statistics The name has many variants in use across the world and has been in consistent use worldwide. ''Elizabeth'' was the tenth most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2007 and has been among the 25 most popular names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It is the only name that remained in the top ten US girls' names list from 1925 to 1972. In the early 21st century, ''Elizabeth'' has been among the top 50 names given to girls in the past 10 years born in England and Wales, as well Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig Heyl
Hedwig Heyl (c. 1853 - January 23, 1934) was a German businesswoman and author, active in social welfare causes. She was born in Bremen in 1850. Her father was the industrialist Edouard Crüsemann. She married Georg Heyl at age 18, and when she was widowed at age 49 she took over running the business—a very unusual thing for a woman to do at that time. She organized the National Women's Service League in Germany during World War I and set up soup kitchens around Berlin. She was the head of the 1904 International Women's Congress in Berlin. She organized an exhibition in Berlin called "Woman in Her Home and Occupational Life" in 1906. She was the author of a popular German cookbook, ''Das ABC der Küche'' (''The ABCs of the Kitchen'').Benbow (2019), p. 25. In 1920 she received an honorary degree from the University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Von Helmholtz
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (rapper) (born 2003) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) * C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Indian politician, known as Anna (elder brother) * Sunil Shetty (born 1961), Indian actor, known by his nickname Anna Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Schrader-Breymann
Henriette may refer to: People Nobles :''Ordered chronologically'' * Henriette of Cleves (1542–1601), Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel and Princess of Mantua * Henriette Marie of the Palatinate (1626–1651), daughter of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia * Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (1636–1676), Electress of Bavaria * Henriette Louise de Bourbon (1703–1772), French princess and abbess * Henriette of France (1727–1752), French princess, daughter of King Louis XV Other :''Ordered alphabetically'' * Henriette Chandet (1901-1989), French feminist, columnist, and historian * Henriette Willemina Crommelin (1870-1957), Dutch labor leader and temperance reformer * Henriette Delamarre de Monchaux (1854–1911), French naturalist, geologist and paleontologist * Henriette Dibon (1902–1989), French poet and short story writer * Henriette Hansen (other) * Henriette Homann (1819–1892), Norwegian photographer and painter * Henriette Löfman (1784� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
