Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich
| Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elisabeth Charlotte Henrich 15 September 1901 Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | 16 June 1979 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Alma mater | Frederick-William University, Berlin |
| Occupation | Historian Author |
| Political party |
KPD SED |
| Spouse(s) | (1902-1979) |
| Children | Rudolf 1948 |
| Parent(s) | Rudolf Henrich (-1926) Marie Bernbeck |
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (born Elisabeth Charlotte Henrich and identified in some sources simply as Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf: 15 September 1901 - 16 June 1979) was a German novelist and historian of the classical period. As a writer she concerned herself with two distinct cultures: that of Ancient Greece and that of the "North American Indians" (as they would have been generally known when Welskopf-Henrich was working). As an East German academic she was an influential authority on Ancient Greece. Away from the university she wrote novels concerned with the North American Indians which became classics of East German children's literature.
At the age of 10 she wrote a long letter to the Mexican president, urging him to proceed with greater humanity against Yaqui insurgents.
Liselotte Henrich was born in Munich, the child of Rudolf Henrich, a liberal-leaning lawyer, and his wife, born Marie Bernbeck. In 1907 the family moved to Stuttgart, where Liselotte first attended school, and in 1913 they relocated again, now to Berlin. At school she followed a humanist curriculum, passing her school final exams (Abitur) in 1921 as a pupil at the . While still at school she decided to become a writer and historian. As a child her leisure pursuits included mountaineering in the Alps. On leaving school she studied Economics, Ancient History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy at the Frederick-William University (as the "Humboldt" was then known) in Berlin. She received her doctorate in 1925 for a piece of work on the organisation of the international shoe trade. The "cum magna laude" citation she received for her doctorate supported the urgings of one of her supervisors, Ulrich Wilcken, that she should progress to a habilitation (higher academic qualification) which would have opened the conventional route to an academic career, but the inflation of the early 1920s had left the family finances in no position to support a further period of study. Starting in 1925 she was employed as a statistician in the private sector, before switching to the public sector in 1928. Her father died in 1926. She worked in Berlin as a between 1928 and 1945.
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