Johanna Greie
Johanna Greie | |
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Born | Johanna Greie January 6, 1864[1] Dresden, Germany |
Died | October 1911[2] | (aged 47)
Occupation(s) | Writer, lecturer |
Spouse | Emile Greie[3] |
Johanna Greie (1864–1911),[4] also known as Johanna Greie-Cramer, was a German-American writer, socialist, and reformer.
Biography
Born in Dresden on January 6, 1864 to middle-class parents, her formal education ended after primary school. She met and married Emile Greie, a lathe-turner devoted to the free-thought and
A friend of her husband's, the writer Karl Schneidt , discovered her literary ability and urged her to write for his paper, the Neue Magdeburger Tageblatt, where she worked for some years.[1]
Forced to leave Germany as a result of the political convictions of her husband, whose views she shared, the couple moved to America in 1887. She "flowered virtually overnight into a leading Socialist writer and lecturer",
Her biography is sketched out in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, Feb 26, 1911.
Legacy
During her lecture circuit on the subject of the
As I turned towards them, I saw Greie motioning to me. I was startled, my heart beat violently, and my feet felt leaden. When I approached her, she took me by the hand and said: "I never saw a face that reflected such a tumult of emotions as yours. You must be feeling the impending tragedy intensely. Do you know the men?" In a trembling voice I replied: "Unfortunately not, but I do feel the case with every fibre, and when I heard you speak, it seemed to me as if I knew them." She put her hand on my shoulder. "I have a feeling that you will know them better as you learn their ideal, and that you will make their cause your own."
— Emma Goldman, Living My Life (1970)
Bibliography
- Is It Necessary For Women to Organize Themselves?
- The Woman and the Labor Press[7]
References
- ^ a b Sophie Pataky (January 1898), Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder, vol. 1 A-L, p. 298, URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-34921-1, archived from the original on June 25, 2021
- ^ "unferer aufopferungsvollen Genossin Johanna Greie-Cramer" [Obituary of our self-sacrificing comrade Johanna Greie-Cramer]. Echo: Wochenblatt der Vereinigten Deutschen Socialisten Clevelands (in German). Cleveland, Ohio. October 7, 1911. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ^ Blätter für die gesamten Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliographischer Zentral-verlag. 1912. p. 2.
- ^ ISBN 9781137097842.
- ^ "The Convention". Workmen's Advocate. 5 (43): 1. October 26, 1889. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ISBN 9780313246388.