Hedwig Bleuler-Waser Explained

Hedwig Bleuler–Waser
Birth Name:Sophie Hedwig Waser
Birth Date:1869 12, df=y
Birth Place:Zürich, Switzerland
Death Place:Zollikon, Switzerland
Nationality:Swiss
Education:University of Zurich
Children:2

Sophie Hedwig Bleuler-Waser (born Sophie Hedwig Waser; 29 December 1869 – 1 February 1940) was a Swiss suffragette who founded the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women.

Personal life

Bleuler-Waser was born on 29 December 1869 in Zürich.[1] Bleuler-Waser married Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler.[2] The two met while campaigning for the abstinence movement.[3] The couple did not frequent Church and followed the ideas of the Enlightenment.[4]

Education and career

In 1901 she met Auguste Forel, a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, and at his suggestion, she founded the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women.[1] [5] She chaired the Federation as president until October 1921.[6] Together with her five children, she ran social events at the psychiatric hospital her husband, Dr. Eugen Bleuler, worked at, including serving afternoon tea.[7]

In 1907, Bleuler-Waser graduated from the University of Zurich, becoming one of the few women to receive her doctorate.[8] While at the University of Zurich she established lasting friendships with Marie Baum, Ricarda Huch and Marianne Plehn.[9] After completing her doctorate, she taught at the Höhere Mädchenschule in Zürich.[6]

During World War 1, Bleuler-Waser and Else Züblin were involved in the construction of alcohol-free soldiers' offices.[10] In the winter of 1917, she started women's education courses in Zürich.[1] For most of the time Bleuler was working in Burghölzli, between 1898 and 1927, the family lived together in an apartment outside the clinic. The apartment was also home to a secretary and junior doctor.[4] From 1919 until 1937, she led the German-Swiss Ortsgruppenvereinigung (Local chapter of Association).[1]

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications:[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hedwig Bleuler-Waser . hls-dhs-dss.ch . . 15 October 2019 . 6 November 2002.
  2. News: Yoker . Ümit . Zerrissen zwischen innen und aussen . 15 October 2019 . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 28 December 2013.
  3. Web site: Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) . embryo.asu.edu . 15 October 2019.
  4. Joos-Bleuler . Tina . Being a Member of the Bleuler Family . Schizophr Bull . November 2011 . 37 . 6 . 1115–1117 . 3196944 . 22013083 . 10.1093/schbul/sbr135 .
  5. Book: Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Die ersten Zürcher Ärztinnen: Humanitäres Engagement und wissenschaftliche Arbeit zur Zeit der Eugenik. 29 August 2018 . Schwabe AG. 9783796538766 . 134 . 15 October 2019.
  6. Web site: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Ludwig Binswanger und Eugen Bleuler . d-nb.info . 15 October 2019 . 33–35 . German . 2009.
  7. Book: Coline Covington . Barbara Wharton . Sabina Spielrein:Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, Revised Edition . 8 May 2015 . Routledge . 9781317458609 . 87 . 15 October 2019.
  8. Book: Herrmann . Anne . Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life . 15 April 2014 . University of Wisconsin Press . 9780299298432 . 143 . 15 October 2019.
  9. Book: The Trauma of Defeat: Ricarda Huch's Historiography During the Weimar Republic . James Martin Skidmore . Peter Lang . 2005 . 9783039107605 . 22 .
  10. Book: Schweizer Kriegsnothilfe im Ersten Weltkrieg: Eine Mikrogeschichte des materiellen Überlebens mit besonderer Sicht auf Stadt und Kanton Zürich . 3 December 2018 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprech . 9783412512699 . 278 . 16 October 2019.
  11. Web site: Au:Bleuler-Waser, Hedwig . worldcat.org . 16 October 2019.

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