Born: 25 May 1855, Austria
Died: 9 June 1910
Country most active: Austria
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Born in a small home of a Catholic Austrian mother and a Northern German Protestant father, yet she had a good educational start. Grade, high – school and normal school made an excellent teacher out of her. She did not have to wait long for her desired career. While teaching during the day, she studied philosophy and civics in the evening. After the death of her father she had to help support her mother and the other four children. As soon as they could support themselves she organized the ”Allgemeine dsterreichische Frauenverein.” Edited a very modern magazine, Im neuen Frauenleben, saw that the women in distress got free legal advice. She spoke and wrote on the problems of higher education for women, admission to the faculties to state and private higher offices. Courageous, honest, willing, helpful, sacrificing time and comfort to help the cause to foster high ideals, is the imprint on her monument in Tiirkunschanzpark in Vienna.
She did not live to see so many of her plans ripen, but she made necessary preparations for it. The one kitchenhaus for families where the mother is professionally engaged, was opened after her death. The home for single working women was just finished.
Her ideal to assist the woman to put society on a higher basis, if she could not complete the herculean task, she herself was a light on the way.