Elisabeth (Lilli) Deichmann-Schaaffhausen (13 May 1811 – 4 July 1888) was a German aristocrat who became an ophthalmologist and a citizen of Liechtenstein. She was known as a hostess and she managed to study at a university many years before women were allowed to attend.
Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen | |
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| Born | May 13, 1811 |
| Died | July 4, 1888 |
| Nationality | German and of Liechtenstein |
| Spouse | Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann |
| Children | eleven |
Life
editDeichmann-Schaaffhausen was born in Cologne in 1811.[1] Her father was the German banker Abraham Schaaffhausen and her mother was his second wife Maria Therese Lucie (born de Maes).[2] She was one of the last of their six children.[citation needed] Her mother was active in public life supporting girls' schools and art societies in Cologne.[2]
She married a wealthy banker, Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann, and in 1853 they moved to a castle near Bonn called Schloss Deichmannsaue. They had eleven children.[3] She owned a number of artworks as a painting of hers by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay and another by Jean-Louis Demarne are known to have been in her collection.[3]
Their home was a salon and the guests included the Crown Prince of Prussia and the composers Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch.[3] She remarkably became an ophthalmologist.
In 1878 she gained the citizenship of Leichtenstein.[3]
Honours
editIn 1873 she was given the Royal Württemberg Order of Olga[citation needed] and at that time she already had the Cross of Merit for Women and Girls[4]
The violinist and musicologist Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski dedicated his 1869 book The Violin and its Masters to "Mrs. Lilla Deichmann née Schaaffhausen ... in grateful homage".[5]
There was a biography and image of her published in 1875.[6] Deichmann-Schaaffhausen died in Bonn in 1888.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Biographie, Deutsche. "Deichmann-Schaaffhausen, Lilli - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ a b Mettele, Gisela (2008-10-01), "Chapter 4 THE CITY AND THE CITOYENNE ASSOCIATIONAL CULTURE AND FEMALE CIVIC VIRTUES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN", Civil Society and Gender Justice, Berghahn Books, pp. 79–96, doi:10.1515/9781845458577-007, ISBN 978-1-84545-857-7, retrieved 2024-04-01
- ^ a b c d "Nicolas-Antoine TAUNAY (Paris, 1755-1830) Paysage italia… | Drouot.com". drouot.com. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ List of awardees, 2007
- ^ Wasielewski, Wilhelm Joseph von (1869). Die Violine und ihre Meister (in German). Breitkopf & Härtel.
- ^ Westermanns illustrierte deutsche Monatshefte: ein Familienbuch für das gesamte geistige Leben der Gegenwart. 37 (in German). Westermann. 1875.