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Prename: | Helene |
Surname: | Lange |
Profession: | Teacher, women's rights advocate |
Birthday: | 04/09/1848 |
Place of birth: | Oldenburg |
Date of death: | 05/13/1930 |
Place of death: | Berlin |
Education: | 1866 au pair at a boarding school in Petit Château, Alsace; private studies in philosophy, literature, history of religion, history, and classical languages; 1871 teaching qualification in Berlin |
Career: | Until 1891 teacher at private girls’ schools; from 1889 secondary-level (from 1893 high school level) courses for women preparing to sit the final high school examinations (*Abitur*) externally in Berlin; from 1893 edits the journal *Die Frau*; 1906 contributes to the Prussian reform of girls’ schooling; 1914–18 supports the National Women’s Service; 1920 founds the Women’s School of Social Work in Hamburg with Gertrud Bäumer; 1923 honorary doctorate in political science, Tübingen University; 1928 Prussian State Medal |
Memberships: | 1872 Association of German Women Teachers and Educators (Verein deutscher Lehrerinnen und Erzieherinnen); 1890 founding member, from 1893 board member, General German Association of Women Teachers (ADLV); from 1894 board member, Federation of German Women’s Associations (BDF); 1908 German Free-minded Party (DFP), 1919 Hamburg city councilor for the German Democratic Party (DDP); until 1921 president of the General Association of German Women (ADF) |
Biographical literature: | Angelika Schaser, *Helene Lange und Gertrud Bäumer. Eine politische Lebensgemeinschaft* (Cologne: Böhlau, 2000); [*Neue Deutsche Biographie*,“Helene Lange” ](http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz47917.html) |
Major works: | *Handbuch der Frauenbewegung*, 5 vols (ed. with Gertrud Bäumer; Berlin: Moeser, 1901–06); *Die Frau. Monatsschrift für das gesamte Frauenleben unserer Zeit* (ed. with Gertrud Bäumer; 1893–1924) |