Therese Brunsvik
Countess Therese(von)Brunsvik(Hungarian:Teréz Brunszvik;July 27, 1775 inPozsony,Kingdom of Hungary– September 23, 1861 inPest,Kingdom of Hungary), sometimes referred to in English asTherese, Countess von BrunsvikorBrunswick,was a member of theHungarian nobility,pedagogeand a follower of the SwissPestalozzi.
Early life
[edit]She was born as the eldest child and eldest daughter of HungarianCount,Anton Brunszvik de Korompa (1746-1793) and his wife,BaronessAnna Barbara Wanckel von Seeberg (1752-1830). Her siblings were Count Franz (1779-1854), Countess Maria Josefa (1779-1821),Countess Josephine,and Countess Charlotte (1780-1843).
Biography
[edit]She was the founder ofnursery schoolsinHungaryon July 1, 1828,[1][2]afterRobert Owen's example set inNew Lanark,Scotland in 1816. Soon the pre-school institution became famous all over Hungary and in 1837,Friedrich Fröbelfounded the first "kindergarten" in Germany.
One ofLudwig van Beethoven's students, Therese was the dedicatee for hisPiano Sonata No. 24(in F♯major, Opus 78), and some writers speculated that she—not her sisterJosephinewho is generally accepted as the addressee—may have been the intended recipient of Beethoven's letter to the "Immortal Beloved".Her memoirs were first published byLa Mara,who subscribed to this theory.[3]and her diaries and notes (up to 1813) by Marianne Czeke,[4]both claiming to reveal much about the relations betweenBeethovenand the Brunsvik family, in particular her sisterJosephine.
References
[edit]- ^Public Preschool Education In Hungary: A Historical Survey, 1980
- ^Vag, Otto (March 1975)."The Influence of the English Infant School in Hungary".International Journal of Early Childhood.7(1). Springer: 132–136.doi:10.1007/bf03175934.S2CID145709106.
- ^La Mara (1909) [Ida Maria Lipsius]:Beethovens Unsterbliche Geliebte. Das Geheimnis der Gräfin Brunsvik und ihre Memoiren.Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.
- ^Marianne Czeke (1938):Brunszvik Teréz grófno naplói és feljegyzései.[Countess Therese Brunsvik's Diaries and Notes.] Vol. 1. Budapest.
External links
[edit]- (in Hungarian)http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC00523/02357.htm
- (in German)http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b830508.htm
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