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Agnes Gosche

1857-08-26 – 1928-03-14

Portrait of Agnes Gosche
Album of Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverband (Universal German Women's Association) with photos of main activists, photo album, leather, cardboard, photo paper, about 1900. The open book shows photos of Agnes Gosche (top left), Friederike Bröll (bottom left), Pauline Vogtländer (top right) and Antonie Traun (bottom right). Photo of album in repository of Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung (Archive of German Women's Movement), Kassel, Signature NL-K-08; 39. Photographer: Horst Ziegenfusz on behalf of Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Historical Museum Frankfurt). Published in Dorothee Linnemann (ed.): Damenwahl! 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-95542-306-3, p. 70.Credit: Foto by Horst Ziegenfusz The copyright of the foto is with the Historical Museum Frankfurt who decided to release these media files under cc-by-sa license during GLAM on Tour Frankfurt 2018. The Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung (Archive of German Women's Movement) which is in possession of this artefact has agreed to this upload.

Life & Legacy

Agnes Gosche (1857-1928) was a German teacher and art historian.
Gosche was born on August 26, 1857 in Berlin, Germany. She earned her PhD in art history from the University of Zurich in In 1898.
In 1900, Gosche founded the Halleschen Frauenbildungsverein (Halle Women's Education Association) In 1904 Gosche succeeded Henriette Goldschmidt as head of the Lyceums des Vereins für Familien- und Volkserziehung (Lyceum of the Association for Family and Popular Education). She was an advocate of early education, Kindergärten, as well as being an advocate for women's education.
Gosche died on March 14, 1928 in Halle (Saale), Germany.

Occupation & Career

art historian, philologist, teacher

Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q394528 — wikidata View source

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