Necker de Saussure, Albertine-Adrienne

Necker de Saussure, Albertine-Adrienne

▪ Swiss writer
née  Albertine-adrienne De Saussure  
born 1766, Geneva
died April 20, 1841, Vallée du Salève, near Geneva

      Swiss woman of letters and author of a long-influential study on the education of women.

      She was the daughter of a distinguished Swiss naturalist, and she married a noted botanist who was the nephew and namesake of Louis XVI's finance minister, Jacques Necker. Her husband was a cousin of Germaine Necker de Staël, who became her friend and sometime collaborator.

      Reflecting her strongly religious orientation, the most important book of Mme Necker de Saussure, L'Education progressive, ou étude sur le cours de la vie, was a significant contribution to educational literature. The work was published in several volumes over the decade 1828–38; it was first translated into English (in part) in Boston (1835) and later (in full) in London (1839–43; 3 vol.). Other works include Notice sur la caractère et les écrits de Mme de Staël (1820; “A Review of the Character and the Writings of Mme de Staël”) and a French translation of August Wilhelm von Schlegel's Über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11) as Cours de littérature dramatique, 3 vol. (1814).

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