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Alice Zimmern (1855–1939)

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Fødselsdato
1855-09-22
Dødsdag
1939-03-22
Køn
female
Nationalitet
England
UK
Fødested
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Dødssted
London, England, UK
Bopæl
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Uddannelse
University of London (Bedford College)
University of Cambridge (Girton College)
Erhverv
classicist
translator
suffragist
teacher
Relationer
Zimmern, Helen (sister)
Zimmern, Alfred Eckhard (cousin)
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Alice Zimmern was born in Nottingham, England, the youngest of three daughters of Hermann Theodore Zimmern, a German Jewish immigrant and lace merchant, and his wife Antonia Maria Therese. Her oldest sister Helen Zimmern also became a writer. Alice was educated at a private school and at Bedford College, London, before entering Girton College, Cambridge, in 1881 to read classics. After graduation, she taught at English girls' schools, including Tunbridge Wells High School. She collaborated with Helen on two volumes of translated selections from European novels, published in 1880 and 1884. On her own, she produced a school edition of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1887), a translation of Hugo Bluemner's The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks (1893), and a translation of Porphyry: The Philosopher to his Wife Marcella (1896). She wrote popular children's books on ancient Greece and Rome, including Greek History for Young Readers (1895), Old Tales from Greece (1897) and Old Tales from Rome (1906). In 1893, she won a Gilchrist Travelling Scholarship to study the USA education system, which led to her book Methods of Education in America (1894). She later studied education methods in France and Germany. She left school teaching in 1894 but continued to tutor private students in the classics. She was a regular contributor of articles on comparative education and the education of women to periodicals. She stimulated public debate on the education and rights of women with her books The Renaissance of Girls' Education (1898) and Women's Suffrage in Many Lands (1909). She knew and worked with many prominent suffragists and members of the Fabian Society such as Edith Bland, Eleanor Marx, and Beatrice Potter. Other works included Demand and Achievement: The International Women's Suffrage Movement (1912), a translation of Paul Kajus von Hoesbroech's Fourteen Years a Jesuit (1911), and Gods and Heroes of the North (1907). At her death, she bequeathed funds to Girton College to create the Alice Zimmern Memorial Prize for Classics.

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Vurdering
3.0
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2