Helene Adler
Born(1849-12-05)5 December 1849
Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation
Died2 December 1923(1923-12-02) (aged 73)
Frankfurt am Main, German Republic
OccupationEducator, writer, poet
LanguageGerman (Hessian dialect)

Helene Adler was a German Jewish educator, writer, and poet.

Biography

Helene Adler was born in Frankfurt in 1849, in the same house in which Ludwig Börne was born,[1] and which was the property of her father, a minor officer of the Frankfurt Jewish community.[2] She attended the Philanthropin until 1865, and graduated from the Wiesbaden Women's College in 1867.[3] For fifteen years she was a teacher in the school of the Waisenschule des israelitischen Frauenvereins in her native city.[3]

Adler gave up teaching in 1882 due to her declining health,[3] and thereafter devoted herself entirely to literature. She published that year her first collection of poetry, Beim Kuckuck. In the following years she published poems and pedagogical essays in various newspapers and journals.[4]

She was a proponent of pacifism during the First World War.[citation needed]

Selected works

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman (1901). "Adler, Helene". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 195.

  1. ^ Heuer, Renate; Wuthenow, Ralph-Rainer (1995). Gegenbilder und Vorurteil: Aspekte des Judentums im Werk deutschsprachiger Schriftstellerinnen. Campus Judaica (in German). Vol. 4. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-35390-6. OCLC 491581330.
  2. ^ Friedrichs, Elisabeth (1981). Die deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Ein Lexikon. Repertorien zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte (in German). Vol. 9. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. p. 2. ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7.
  3. ^ a b c Pataky, Sophie, ed. (1898). "Adler, Frl. Helene". Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder (in German). Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag Carl Pataky. p. 4.
  4. ^ Hock, Sabine (1994). "Adler, Helene". In Klötzer, Wolfgang (ed.). Frankfurter Biographie. Personengeschichtliches Lexikon. Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Waldemar Kramer. p. 14. ISBN 3-7829-0444-3.
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