Marie Lang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie Lang

Austrian feminist, theosophist and publisher

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1858

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Oct-1934

Profession: writer, salonnière, women's rights activist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Marie Lang

  • Marie Lang (8 March 1858 – 14 October 1934) was an Austrian feminist, theosophist and publisher.
  • Born in 1858 in Vienna, Lang was raised in a liberal, upper-middle-class home.
  • After divorcing her first husband in 1884, she married Edmund Lang and the two hosted an influential salon for politicians and intellectuals.
  • She became interested in the women's movement at the end of the 1880s and quickly became an influential women's rights activist.
  • In 1893, along with Auguste Fickert and Rosa Mayreder, she founded the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein (General Austrian Women's Association).
  • The organization, unlike other women's groups at the time was not affiliated with charitable endeavors and had a political motivation, in spite of provisions in Section 30, which prohibited women's political involvement.
  • The three friends used their networks of influential politicians and intellectuals to press for changes in laws dealing with educational and employment rights, abolition of laws regulating prostitution and women teacher's celibacy, protection for illegitimate children and unwed mothers, and in favor of women's suffrage. In 1898, she was a co-founder of the women's journal Dokumente der Frauen (Women's Documents), serving as its editor-in-chief until 1902.
  • That year, she attended the International Abolitionist Federation's conference in London and visited the Passmore Edwards Settlement, becoming an advocate of the social programs they offered.
  • When she returned to Austria, she gave lectures for the Frauenverein on the settlement movement.
  • She organized the Vienna Settlement Society whose first project provided school lunches in Brigittenau.
  • In 1901, she founded the Ottakring Settlement House in a former brewery in the Ottakring section of Vienna.
  • The facility served as a place for women to receive social services including maternity care, nursery services, healthcare for women and children, educational training, as well as attend evening entertainments.
  • After the suicide of her second son in 1904, Lang withdrew briefly from the women's movement, though she continued to work with the Settlement Society. Lang served on the board of the Settlement Society from 1901 until 1909.
  • In 1905, she joined the Committee on Woman Suffrage, and worked actively to change Section 30 and women's right to vote.
  • She served as the delegate for the committee to the 1908 conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam.
  • During World War I she worked in a war hospital established at the Akademisches Gymnasium, performing Swedish massage therapy.
  • Her husband died in 1918 and after two years she retired from work with the Settlement Society to devote time to her family.
  • She is remembered as one of the leading figures in the turn-of-the-century women's movement of Austria.
  • The Settlement Society she founded remained in operation until 2003 and pioneered many social services in Austria, such as adult education, child and maternity care, summer camp programs, and tuberculosis treatment.

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