Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Prename: | Anna |
Surname: | Schönborn |
Profession: | Senior high school teacher |
Birthday: | 10/30/1880 |
Place of birth: | Mühlhausen |
Date of death: | 05/26/1957 |
Place of death: | Detmold |
Career: | 1923–45 principal of the Uhlandschule, Berlin; 1946–52 high school teacher (*Studienrätin*) of Latin and French at the municipal grammar school for girls in Detmold |
Memberships: | 11930–33 president, Association for the Provision of Interest-free Loans to Women Students; General German Association of Women Teachers (ADLV); founding member and until 1933 council member, German Federation of University Women (DAB), chair of the DAB’s committee on women students’ welfare; 1929–36 German delegate to the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) and chair of the IFUW Committee on Interchange of Teachers; delegate to the International Council of Women (ICW); from 1950 president, Detmold chapter of the DAB |
Biographical literature: | Christine von Oertzen, “Fräuleingeschichten,” in *Geschichte in Geschichten. Ein historisches Lesebuch*, ed. Barbara Duden et al. (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2003), 70–7 |
Major works: | *Uhland-Schule 1909–1934* (Berlin: Uhlandschule, 1934) |