Klementyna Tańska - Hoffmanowa (1798 - 1845)

Short name Klementyna Tańska - Hoffmanowa
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First name Klementyna
Birth name Tańska - Hoffmanowa
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Alternative name Klementyna z Tańskich Hoffmanowa , Madame Hoffman - Tanska
Date of birth 1798
Date of death 1845
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Sex Female
Place of birth Poland
Place of death France
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Religion / ideology Catholic
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Klementyna Tańska - Hoffmanowa was ...
related to Narcyza Żmichowska
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Place(s) of Residence Poland
Receptions of Klementyna Tańska - Hoffmanowa, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
Les femmes illustres de l'Europe The glorious women of Europe Antoinette-Joséphine-Françoise-Anne Comtesse Drohojowska 1822 is biography of
Kratek pregled poljskega slovstva A Short Overview of Polish Literature Vojeslav Mole 1907 mentions person
MENTIONED IN: - Pisarki polskie od średniowiecza do współczesności. Przewodnik, red. Grażyna Borkowska, Małgorzata Czermińska, Urszula Philips, Gdańsk 2000 (Polish Women Authors from the Middle Ages to the Modern Timens. A reference book), the ed. Grażyna Borkowska, Małgorzata Czerminska, Ursula Philips, Gdańsk 2000. Cf. - Bogna Lorence-Kot, “Klementyna Tanska Hoffmanowa, cultural nationalism and a new formula for Polish womanhood”, in Karen Offen (ed.), Women in European Culture and Society, special issue of History of European Ideas 8 (1987), p.435-450 - Nikliborg - Ursula Phillips and Grażyna Borkowska, Polish Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century, A History of Central European Women's Writing, ed. Celia Hawkesworth, Palgrave 2001, p. 66-67.
Born in Warsaw, Poland (23-11-1798). Died in Passy near Paris (15-09-1845). Also spent time in Dresden (Germany) and Paris (France). She originated from the poor Polish nobility. Well educated. Her literature was an example for the authorship created by women. Principal customer of the literature were women. Very actively she supported the education of women, however attended that the woman should not fulfil public parts , but exclusively to see about with the family and the house. She had an academical education, was a lecturer in the Institute instructive of the governess.[M.D.; E.W.]. -- Ward schon durch ihre erste Schrift: "Pamiatka po dobrej matce" (1819 "Andenken der guten Mutter"), eine der beliebtesten Schriftstellerinnen für Kinder und Mütter. Sie gründete und redigierte seit 1824 eine Kinderzeitschrift: "Rozrywki dla dzieci" ("Zerstreuungen für Kinder"), und verfaßte mehrere Kindererzählungen, z. B. "Amelia" und "Wiazanie Helenki". 1827 wurde sie zur ersten Lehrerin an dem Erzieherinneninstitut ernannt und erhielt gleichzeitig die Oberaufsicht über die Mädchenschulen in Warschau. Seit 1829 verheiratet, folgte sie ihrem Gatten 1831 ins Ausland, wo sie sich litterarischen Arbeiten und der Erziehung der Kinder der Emigranten widmete. Aus dieser Zeit rühren ihre größern Schriften her, Romane, Erzählungen, Unterrichtsbücher für Mädchen religiös-sittlichen und historischen Inhalts etc., z. B. "Caroline", "Christine", das biographische Kulturbild "Jan Kochanowski"; dann "Nowa biblioteczka dla dzieci" (Bresl. 1838), "O moralnosci dla kobiet" (Krakau 1841), "Dziennik Krasinskiej" u. a. Ihr litterarischer Nachlaß mit ihren Memoiren erschien in 9 Bänden (Berl. 1848). Xask m ozarska to add info Aboutaleb krasinski diary svd (cf. hyperlink - does not work for the moment oct09) - Had school and university education? To be checked. MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.99: rearticulating feminist claims