Hanna Rydh
Hanna Albertina Rydh married Hanna Schnittger ( born February 12, 1891 in Stockholm, † June 29, 1964 in Solna ) was a Swedish Prähistorikerin, politician and women's rights activist.
Hanna was born into a wealthy Rydh family. Her father was a power plant director. Your high school she could drop in 1910 at a traditional girls school in Stockholm. Then at the University of Stockholm, she also took up her studies and graduated in 1915 with a master's degree in literature from. In addition, they engaged each other since their student days in women's associations. After completing Rydh went to the University of Uppsala, where Oscar Almgren her teacher. During this time she also led in responsible positions in the summer excavations. In 1919 she presented her licentiate thesis. It was not printed, but the basis of the dissertation. Through the work of Oscar Montelius was aware of them, the accelerated their promotion. 1919 was racing events in their lives. On May 23, she was Lizentiatin, before she was a candidate. A week later, receiving a doctorate, a week later she married her former academic teacher Bror Schnittger ( 1882-1924 ). Another four days later, the newly married couple occurred at an archaeologist congress in Copenhagen. After 1920, the marriage law was changed, she was wearing from now on again and continue her birth name Rydh, so there was no confusion on both because of the same name. Rhyds promotion was the first of a woman in the archaeological sciences in Sweden. In the following years she made many trips to France - in Paris, she worked for Henri Hubert - and in the Mediterranean, among other things, she was a guest Arthur Evans at Knossos, which showed her the newly restored Palace. Here her interest in the art of the Paleolithic was awakened. Later, she also toured North and South America, North Africa and the Middle East. So she wrote not only on their excavations, but also travel reports on the Mediterranean, Asia and America. In addition, she also wrote Youth books and fictional portraits of prehistoric women. After a long break as a practical archaeologist led at the age of 60 years in 1952, an expedition to Rajasthan. Here she wanted to help the young Indian nation in finding a national identity.
Rydhs husband Bror Schnittger support his wife on all their life stages and occasionally worked together with her until 1924, he died early at the age of 41 or 42 years. Unlike many other archaeologists of her time the Swede was able to combine career and family life and not decide on one. It helped her, that she never took a permanent position, but was hired for individual projects. When she was selected after the birth of her first son for a scholarship in the UK, she was asked if she would accept the position even under these conditions. Your Answer The birth of my son makes no difference today is legendary in the UK. The couple had a second son even before Bror died. In 1929, she married again. Her second husband Mortimer Munck af Rosenschöld was a politician and diplomat, which also Rydh was politically active. From 1937 to 1949 she headed the Women's Association Fredrika Bremerförbundet. 1942 also died her second husband. Nevertheless, they remained in politics and was 1943/44, for the liberal Folkpartiet erna Member of the Swedish Parliament, where she dealt mainly with questions of emancipation, the family policy and employment of women. In 1946 she was President of the International Alliance of Women, which she remained until 1952.
Writings
- De Historiska källorna till Strindberg's " fattening Olof " (1915 )
- Olaus Petri. En levnadsteckning (1917 )
- Dosformiga spännen från vikingatiden (1919)
- Dar fädrens kummel stå. En utfärdsbok promote Stockholmstraktens fornlämningar, två delar (1922 )
- Grottmänniskornas årtusenden (1926 )
- Kvinnan i forntid North (1926 ) (reprint 2003)
- Solskivans country: skildringar i ord och bild från det gamla och nya Egypt (1927 ) English translation: The land of the sun -god. Description of ancient and modern Egypt (1929 )
- Danish translation: Mor fortaeller om hvordan the var i Verden i gamle Dage (1947 )