Traum und Wirklichkeit der Helene Druskowitz
The article focuses on the writer and scholar Helene Druskowitz, the first female person in 19th century Austria holding a PhD (Dr. phil.). Born to a family of haute bourgeoisie, Druskowitz did her studies in philosophy, classics and modern languages, oriental and German studies, and archeolo...
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| Language: | deu |
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StudienVerlag
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften |
| Online Access: | https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3681 |
| Summary: | The article focuses on the writer and scholar Helene Druskowitz, the first female person in 19th century Austria holding a PhD (Dr. phil.). Born to a family of haute bourgeoisie, Druskowitz did her studies in philosophy, classics and modern languages, oriental and German studies, and archeology at the university of Zurich, Switzerland, during a period before Germany or Austria had opened their universities to women. The first part of the article deals with the specific situation of a female student at the university of Zurich in the 1870ies, the second part reflects the outcome of such an experience, the establishing of a social network in which Helene Druskowitz as a philosopher, intellectual, and writer became a part of. The ambiguity and ambivalence between a scholarly type and an artist’s type, which was central for Druskowitz, who later in her life time became a psychiatric patient confined behind the walls of several hospitals, led to aesthetic procedures oriented on irony and satire, enabling her not only to reflect her societal role as a female scholar but also her experiences as a university student in Zurich.
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| ISSN: | 1016-765X 2707-966X |