Helene von Druskowitz
Helene von Druskowitz (2 May 1856 – 31 May 1918), born Helena Maria Druschkovich, was an Austrian philosopher, writer and music critic. She was the second woman to obtain a Doctorate in Philosophy, which she obtained in Zürich. She usually published under a male alias because of predominant sexism.
Biography
Druskowitz was born at
Lou Andreas Salomé and Friedrich Nietzsche, whom she was introduced to by the circle of Malwida von Meysenbug. Helene Druskowitz was one of the happy few who received a copy of the fourth book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra
, published at the author's expense. However, the relationship with Nietzsche did not last long.
In 1885 she published a book on Three English Writers, Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot.
Helene Druskowitz's brother died in 1886, and her mother in 1888. In 1887, she began a live-in relationship in Dresden with the opera singer
his philosophy
.
She died at the end of May 1918 in Mauer-Öhling, of dysentery, having spent the last 27 years of her life in a psychiatric institution.
Works
- Sultan und Prinz (1882)
- Der Präsident vom Zitherclub (1883–84)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1884)
- Drei englische Dichterinnen (Three English Writers, 1885)
- Moderne Versuche eines Religionsersatzes (1886)
- Wie ist Verantwortung und Zurechnung ohne Annahme der Willensfreiheit möglich? (1887)
- Zur neuen Lehre. Betrachtungen (1888)
- Zur Begründung einer neuen Weltanschauung (Zur neuen Lehre) (1889)
- Eugen Dühring. Eine Studie zu seiner Würdigung (1889)
- Aspasia (1889)
- Die Pädagogin (1890)
- Philosophischer Rundfragebogen (1903)
- Pessimistische Kardinalsätze (1988, with the title Der Mann als logische und sittliche Unmöglichkeit und als Fluch der Welt)
See also
- Feminism
- Nietzsche
References
- ^ "Helene von Druskowitz".
- ^ Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon; Routledge, London (2202)
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