Sophie von Scherer

Sophie von Scherer ( born February 5, 1817 in Vienna, † May 29, 1876 in Graz) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Sophie von Scherer, born Sockl, was born as the daughter of a master carpenter Johann Gottlieb Sockl, which also distinguished himself as an inventor, and Sophie Sockl, born Shurer Waldheim, in Vienna. Among his siblings was the painter and photographer Theodor Sockl. The devout Catholic focused in her youth with the painting, but later turned to writing to. In 1848 she published her educational work for women in three volumes. A new feature for such a topic was to produce in the form of an entertaining epistolary novel. The aim was to give the women of the better classes practical instructions for raising children, but also to explain the woman in the family and society especially as wife and mother's place.

Sophie von Scherer sat down seriously for prudent social reforms such as old-age insurance, kindergartens, child care and child support, especially for the service staff and vulnerable families. The goals of the 1848 revolution turned them down, but benefited for her work on the 1848 -won freedom of the press.

Your claims to ecclesiastical reforms, such as abolishing the celibacy and implementation of worship in the German language, she was also in 1848, in an open letters to the Bishops' Conference in Würzburg, expressed. In it, she criticized the religious free German Catholics what the Episcopal Conference must remain unanswered left, but promptly provoked a public controversy siblings. Your review has been reciprocated by her brother, the German Catholics related Viennese painter Theodor Sockl, in an open letter. Your answer was also published a defense of their Roman Catholic. Faith. It was to be their last publication. Sophie Scherer was the mother of the famous Graz and Vienna church law expert Rudolf Ritter von Scherer.

Importance

Sophie von Scherer is regarded as a remarkable, ahead of their time looking woman who had propagated the idea of ​​the state social insurance and family support strongly long before the actual launch.

Works

• Education and educational work. Experiences from the lives of women for self-study for women, mothers, daughters. Gratz, 1848
• Furthermore: Two open missive to questions of the Catholic Church Reform: