| Code | DS/UK/615 |
| Dates | 03/02/1859-27/03/1944 |
| Person Name | Höhnk; [Gesche] Helene (03/02/1859-27/03/1944) |
| Surname | Höhnk |
| Forenames | [Gesche] Helene |
| Activity | Librarian and genealogist; she became known as the first female librarian in Germany; catalogued many private archives in Itzehoe, Heide; main cataloguer for the Dithmarscher Landesmuseum; co-founder of Verein Dithmarscher Landeskunde; wrote in Zeitschrift Dithmarschen (-1933); cataloguer at Warburg-Bibliothek (1904). |
| History | 'Privatschule' of Dr. Hartmann in Marne (1870-74); school for house keeping; move to Dresden (1881), London (1883), Paris (1884); studied in Geneva (1884); return to Marne (1885; 1926-1944); travels to Copenhagen (1886), Stockholm, Lund and Uppsala (1894); course for Librarianship in Jena (1899). |
| Source | Frank Trende, in: Chronik des Amtes Kirchspielslandgemeinde Marne-Land mit seinen elf Gemeinden 1995 Marne, pp. 293-294; http://www.warburg-haus.de/; http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/mnemosyne/Gateway.htm; Höhnk, Gesche Helene, URL: <http://www.dithmarschen-wiki.de/Gesche_Helene_H%C3%B6hnk> [accessed 11/01/2011]. |
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