People

On this site you find entries on important individuals that influenced modern European women’s history

The individual persons were selected by the students. We cover the period  from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century and mainly focus on individuals – men and women – from Britain, France and Germany. The entries are organized chronologically by the three centuries and then alphabetically by the last name.

Eighteenth Century (1760-1815)

 Jane Austen (1775-1817)

 Olympe de Gouges (1745-1793)

 Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1796)

 Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791)

 Thereoigne de Mericourt (1762-1817)

 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

 Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914)

 Anita Augspurg (1857-1943)

 Gertrud Bäumer (1873-1954)

 August Bebel (1840-1913)

 Lily Braun (1865-1916)

 Cécile Brunschvicg (1877-1946)

 Josephine Butler (1828-1906)

 Minna Cauer (1842-1922)

 Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)

 Jeanne Deroin (1805-1894)

 Friedrich Engels (1825-1895)

 Millicent Garret Fawcett (1847-1929)

 Lida Gustava Heymann (1868-1943)

 Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

 Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929)

 Helene Lange (1848-1930)

 Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)

 Louise Otto-Peters (1819-1895)

 Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958)

 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

 Jeanne Schmahl (1946-1959)

 Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914)

 Flora Tristan (1803-1844)

 Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)

 Luise Zietz (1865-1922)

Twentieth Century (1914-1980)

Nancy Astor (1879-1964)

 Margaret Grace Bondfield (1873-1953)

 Vera Britain (1939-1970)

 Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

 Marie Juchachz (1879-1956)

  Constance Markievicz (1886-1927)

 Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946)

 Helke Sander (1937-)

 Sophie Scholl (1921-1943)

 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902-1999)

 Alice Schwarzer (1942-)

 Toni Sender (1988-1964)

 Marie Stopes (1880-1958)

 Beatrice Webb (1858-1943)