Natalie von Milde, Natalie Haller until 1881 (31 March 1850 – 29 March 1906) was a German writer and

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. She was an adoptive daughter of

Rosa von Milde Rosa von Milde, also Rosalie von Milde, ''née'' Rosa Agthe (25 June 1827 – 25 January 1906) was a German operatic soprano and voice teacher. She was a leading singer at the Weimar Court Theatre from 1848 to 1867, which flourished when Franz ...

(1827–1906) and

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(1821–1899).

Life

Haller was born in Munich. She was probably the illegitimate daughter of a Frau Geheimrat Jakobsohn.Ulrike Müller: ''Die klugen Frauen von Weimar''. 1st edition 2007. page 107 From the late 1850s she lived in Weimar in the household of Rosa and Hans Feodor von Milde. There she received music lessons from Rosa von Milde and . Due to a

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and permanent weakening of her voice, she had to abandon her vocal training. She then took private lessons in psychology with in Jena in 1879/80. It was not until 1881 that she was adopted by the Milde couple. Milde gave lectures on topical women's issues from 1880 onwards. In 1888, she joined the ''Deutschen Frauenverein Reform'', which was founded by

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in Weimar in the same year. In 1900, she became the first chairperson of the ''Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium'' association in Weimar. She founded a ''Reading Room for Women'' in 1902 with the support of Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Milde was a friend of

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, the Stuttgart court librarian Wilhelm Hemsen (1829-1885),

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and Marie von Bülow, among others. Her literary work deals with issues of women's emancipation such as legal equality of men and women and equal opportunities in education and work. Books from her collection are now in the Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek. Milde died in Weimar short of her 56th birthday.

Publications

* Under the pseudonym J. M.: ''Goethe über Frauen-Emancipation''. In Frauenberuf 2, Nr. 4/1888. * ''Frauenfrage und Männerbedenken. Ein Beitrag zur Verständigung''. Oehmigkes Verlag, Berlin 1890. * ''Der Richter zwischen Mann und Weib''. L. Thelemann, Weimar 1893. * ''Goethe-Geburtstagsbuch''. A. Karrer, Weimar 1894. * ''Goethe und Schiller und die Frauenfrage''. H. Seippel, Weimar and Hamburg 1896. * ''Ist die Frauenbewegung natürlich? Vortrag, geh. am 5 October 1896 im Auftrage der Hamburger Ortsgruppe des Allgemeinen deutschen Frauenvereins''. Weimar 1896. * ''Frauenliebe und -Leben in der Literatur''. In Düna Zeitung vo
31 March 1897, S. 1 f.
* ''Unsere Schriftstellerinnen und die Frauenbewegung''.''Unsere Schriftstellerinnen und die Frauenbewegung''
on WorldCat 1900. * ''Gegenwart und Zukunft der Familie. Eine Entgegnung auf den gleichnamigen Artikel des Herrn Gustav von Schmoller''. 1902. * '' Maria Pawlowna. Ein Gedenkblatt zum 9. November 1904''. 1904. * As editor: ''Briefe in Poesie und Prosa von Peter Cornelius an Theodor und Rosa von Milde''. Weimar 1901.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Milde, Natalie von German women's rights activists German women writers 1850 births 1906 deaths Writers from Munich

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