Gertrud Herzog-Hauser
Born
Gertrud Herzog

(1894-06-15)15 June 1894
Vienna, Austria
Died9 October 1953(1953-10-09) (aged 59)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Humboldt University of Berlin
OccupationClassical philologist
Employer(s)University of Vienna
Somerville College, Oxford
Spouse
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(m. 1922)​

Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (15 June 1894 – 9 October 1953) was an Austrian classical philologist. She was specialised in ancient mythology and religion as well as Latin literature and published Latin school textbooks.[1] She campaigned for equal rights for women in education.[2][3]

Life

Herzog-Hauser was born in 1894 in Vienna and studied Classical Philology, German Studies and Philosophy in Vienna and Berlin, where she was taught by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. On 22 December 1916 she gained her doctorate in Vienna where she was the student of Ludwig Radermacher.[4] In 1917 she took the Staatsexamen for teaching.

Herzog-Hauser worked as teacher at a girls' Gymnasium, the GRG 6 Rahlgasse in Mariahilf, from 1917 to 1937.[3] She also wrote entries for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. In 1922 she married the artist Carry Hauser. In 1932, she gave birth to a son named Heinrich.[2] In the same year, she became the first Austrian woman to gain a habilitation at university and she gave lectures at the University of Vienna.[5] In 1937 she became principal of the Gymnasium in Mariahilf.[2][5]

After the Anschluss, on 22 April 1938,[3] Herzog-Hauser lost her job as she was classified as a Jew by the Nazi Regime, even though she was Catholic.[1][3] Her husband also lost his job because of political reasons. In 1939, Herzog-Hauser and her husband emigrated to the Netherlands.[3] She then became a refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford where she stayed during the Second World War.[6]

In 1946, Herzog-Hauser emigrated to Switzerland and soon returned to the University of Vienna where she became a professor.[3][1] She also taught at a girls' Gymnasium in Hietzing called the Wenzgasse and worked together with the writer Käthe Braun-Prager as chair of the Vereins der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen (Association of Woman Writers and Artists). Herzog-Hauser was Vienna's first university lecturer in classical languages and was offered a teaching position in Australia, which she turned down as her husband received the opportunity to go to Switzerland.[7] In 1950, she was offered a position at the University of Innsbruck[1] but she got a stroke and died three years later in Vienna.[2]

On 12 November 2009, the Gymnasium GRG 6 Rahlgasse dedicated a memorial plaque to her.[5]

Selected publications

  • Altgriechische Liebesgedichte. Vienna, 1924.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso: Ausgewählte Dichtungen. Vienna, 1928.
  • Soter. Die Gestalt des Retters im altgriechischen Epos. Vienna, 1931.
  • Octavia: Fabula praetexta. Vienna, 1934.
  • Uit de Vrouwenbrieven van den H. Hieronymus. 's-Hertogenbosch, 1941.
  • Antonius von Padua. Sein Leben und sein Werk. Lucerne, 1947.
  • De Godsdienst der Grieken. Roermond, 1952.
  • Die Frau in der griechisch-römischen Antik. 1954.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ilse Korotin (12 November 2009). "Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894-1953)". H-Soz-Kult. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Alois Pumhösel (12 March 2013). "Vertrieben, vergessen und zurückgekehrt" (in German). Der Standard. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gertrud Herzog-Hauser" (in German). University of Vienna. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "PH RA 4252 Herzog, Gertrud, 1916.05.13-1916.11.30 (Akt)". scopeq.cc.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 "Gedenktafel Gertrud Herzog-Hauser". www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/ (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  6. ↑ Anne Manuel (4 April 2014). "Refugees Scholars at Somerville". Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  7. ↑ Oertzen 2014, p. 259.

Bibliography

  • Wer ist wer in Österreich? Second edition. Vienna, 1953.
  • Friedrich Wotke: Nachruf auf Gertrud Herzog-Hauser, in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft. Volume 7, 1954.
  • Cornelia Wegeler: Altertumswissenschaft und Nationalsozialismus. Das Göttinger Institut für Altertumskunde 1921–1962. Vienna, 1996. ISBN 3-205-05212-9.
  • Ilse Korotin and Heidi Schrodt: Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894–1953). Klassische Philologin, Universitätsdozentin und Schuldirektorin. Vienna, 2009. ISBN 978-3-7069-0581-7.
  • Christine von Oertzen (2014). Science, Gender, and Internationalism: Women's Academic Networks, 1917-1955. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1215/18752160-3494390. ISBN 978-1-137-43890-4. S2CID 157520821.
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