Hedda Korsch (née Hedwig Franceska Luisa Gagliardi; August 20, 1890 – July 11, 1982) was a German educationalist and university professor who emigrated to the United States. Hedda was born into a bourgeois family who provided her with an intellectual and artistic background. Her maternal grandmother was

Hedwig Dohm Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (née Schlesinger, later Schleh; 20 September 1831 – 1 June 1919) was a German feminist and author. Family She was born in the Prussian capital Berlin to assimilated Jewish parents, and her father was baptized. ...

, a feminist. She was a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the 1920s she taught at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. She was involved in experimental schools. She also worked for the Soviet Trade Mission in

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. However, she was sacked by KPD leaders on account of her relationship with husband Karl Korsch. The couple fled Germany in 1933, at first to Denmark and England, and then in 1936 to the United States where they would spend the rest of their lives. Hedda taught at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

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1890 births 1982 deaths Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty Academic staff of the University of Jena {{Germany-academic-bio-stub

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