Clementine Helm Beyrich (1825–1896), the unusual case of a woman popularizer of the geosciences during the nineteenth century in Central Europe (2021)
Mohr, Barbara A.R. (Author)
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 84-101
During the nineteenth century the role of women was very much restricted. In the geosciences, women were not able to study and thus even less able to publish. Here the work of one female writer is presented who, due to her upbringing in an intellectual family with close connections to the most celebrated scientists in Prussia/Germany, such as Alexander von Humboldt, the mineralogist Christian Samuel Weiss, Ernst Haeckel and many others, was aware of scientific progress and the discussions of the times. Based on her unusual education by teachers and scientists and her intellectual abilities, and knowledge acquired through marriage to a well-established geoscientist, she wrote popular juvenile literature that included geological and palaeontological content. This scientific content was typically woven into fairy tales or novels for adolescent girls and served as a way to spread geoscientific knowledge to a large audience.
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