Marie von Najmajer

Marie of Najmájer ( born February 3, 1844 in Buda, Hungary, † July 25, 1904 in Bad Aussee, Austria ) was an Austrian writer.

Najmájer was the daughter of the Hungarian royal privy councilor Francis of Najmájer with a Viennese. Since 1852 she lived in Vienna. Franz Grillparzer encouraged her to publish her ​​first work of snowdrops after it had been presented by a friend poems Najmájers.

Marie of Najmájer and Babism or Baha'i

Marie of Najmájer settled through the life of the Persian poet Tahirih or Qurrat al - ʿ Ain (Arabic: " consolation of the eyes " ), which adopted the teachings of the Bab was the first woman and it also gave her life to the epic Gurret -ul - Eyn inspire. This work describes in poem form the martyrdom of the Bab and the cruel murder of his followers and thus likely the first work in a Western language to be that handles the dramatic events of the Babi and Bahai history in a literary work. In the epic, the gathering of a group of Babis in Badascht ( Bedescht ) in the summer of 1848 is described, suddenly stood in the Qurrat al - ʿ Ain unveiled before the assembled friends. Hereby it signaled the beginning of the emancipation of women and the separation of the disciples of the Bab from the Koranic law.

The life and fate Qurrat al - ʿ Ain also exerted a remarkable influence on the women's movement in Austria, the great pioneer Marianne Hainisch was the mother of Dr. Michael Hainisch, the first Austrian Federal President. Marianne von Hainisch shared a deep friendship with Marie von Najmájer that she had met in 1870 at a meeting. The two friends involved together in school projects, which should allow women access to higher education. So Marie was Najmájer of a promoter of the " Association for advanced education for women in Vienna".

Works

  • Snowdrops. Poems, Vienna 1868
  • Poems. New Series, Vienna 1872
  • Gurret -ul - Eyn. A picture from Persia in modern times 6 songs, Vienna 1874
  • Countess Ebba. A poem, Stuttgart 1877
  • A Sweden Queen. Novel, Wroclaw 1882
  • Bonfires. A seal, Stuttgart 1888
  • New poems, Stuttgart 1891
  • The star of Navarra. Historical novel, Berlin 1900.
  • The goddess property, Vienna 1901
  • Emperor Julian. Tragedy in 5 acts, Vienna 1904
  • Hildegund. Annie of Tharaw. The gold shoe. Drama t. Estate, Vienna 1907
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