Gertrud Herzog-Hauser

Herzog-Hauser was born in 1894 in Vienna and studied Classical Philology, German Studies and Philosophy in Vienna and Berlin, where she was taught by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. On 22 December 1916 she gained her doctorate in Vienna where she was the student of Ludwig Radermacher.[4] In 1917 she took the Staatsexamen for teaching.

Herzog-Hauser worked as teacher at a girls' Gymnasium, the GRG 6 Rahlgasse in Mariahilf, from 1917 to 1937.[3] She also wrote entries for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. In 1922 she married the artist Carry Hauser. In 1932, she gave birth to a son named Heinrich.[2] In the same year, she became the first Austrian woman to gain a habilitation at university and she gave lectures at the University of Vienna.[5] In 1937 she became principal of the Gymnasium in Mariahilf.[2][5]

After the Anschluss, on 22 April 1938,[3] Herzog-Hauser lost her job as she was classified as a Jew by the Nazi Regime, even though she was Catholic.[1][3] Her husband also lost his job because of political reasons. In 1939, Herzog-Hauser and her husband emigrated to the Netherlands.[3] She then became a refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford where she stayed during the Second World War.[6]

In 1946, Herzog-Hauser emigrated to Switzerland and soon returned to the University of Vienna where she became a professor.[3][1] She also taught at a girls' Gymnasium in Hietzing called the Wenzgasse and worked together with the writer Käthe Braun-Prager as chair of the Vereins der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen (Association of Woman Writers and Artists). Herzog-Hauser was Vienna's first university lecturer in classical languages and was offered a teaching position in Australia, which she turned down as her husband received the opportunity to go to Switzerland.[7] In 1950, she was offered a position at the University of Innsbruck[1] but she got a stroke and died three years later in Vienna.[2]

On 12 November 2009, the Gymnasium GRG 6 Rahlgasse dedicated a memorial plaque to her.[5]

• Altgriechische Liebesgedichte. Vienna, 1924.
• Publius Ovidius Naso: Ausgewählte Dichtungen. Vienna, 1928.
• Soter. Die Gestalt des Retters im altgriechischen Epos. Vienna, 1931.
• Octavia: Fabula praetexta. Vienna, 1934.
• Uit de Vrouwenbrieven van den H. Hieronymus. 's-Hertogenbosch, 1941.
• Antonius von Padua. Sein Leben und sein Werk. Lucerne, 1947.
• De Godsdienst der Grieken. Roermond, 1952.
• Die Frau in der griechisch-römischen Antik. 1954.

• Literature by and about Gertrud Herzog-Hauser in the German National Library catalogue
• Biographical data of Gertrud Herzog-Hauser from the University of Vienna