Henriette Goldschmidt

(1825-1920)

German Jewish feminist, pedagogist and social worker

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Henriette Goldschmidt (1825–1920) was a German Jewish feminist, pedagogist and social worker. She was one of the founders of the German Women's Association (German: Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein) and worked to improve women's rights to access education and employment. As part of that effort, she founded the Society for Family Education and for People's Welfare (German: Verein fuer Familienerziehung und Volkswohl) and the first school offering higher education to women in Germany.

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Born	23 November 1825 Krotoschin, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	30 January 1920 (aged 94) Leipzig, Weimar Republic
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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