| Gertrud Herzog-Hauser | |
| Birth Name: | Gertrud Herzog |
| Birth Date: | 15 June 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Death Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Occupation: | Classical philologist |
| Alma Mater: | University of Vienna Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Employer: | University of Vienna Somerville College, Oxford |
Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (15 June 1894 – 9 October 1953) was an Austrian classical philologist. She was specialised in ancient mythology and religion as well as Latin literature and published Latin school textbooks.[1] She campaigned for equal rights for women in education.
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.[2] 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.[4] 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. In 1937 she became principal of the Gymnasium in Mariahilf.
After the Anschluss, on 22 April 1938, Herzog-Hauser lost her job as she was classified as a Jew by the Nazi Regime, even though she was Catholic. Her husband also lost his job because of political reasons. In 1939, Herzog-Hauser and her husband emigrated to the Netherlands. She then became a refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford where she stayed during the Second World War.[5]
In 1946, Herzog-Hauser emigrated to Switzerland and soon returned to the University of Vienna where she became a professor. 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. In 1950, she was offered a position at the University of Innsbruck but she got a stroke and died three years later in Vienna.
On 12 November 2009, the Gymnasium GRG 6 Rahlgasse dedicated a memorial plaque to her.[6]