A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Gleim, Betty
GLEIM, BETTY,
Known as a writer on German literature and female education. was born in 1781. Her grandfather, J. L. W. Gleim, and several literary friends, contributed greatly to the development of her natural talents. From her earliest youth, she felt a strong bias towards the calling of a teacher. She considered herself in duty bound to devote her life to the amelioration of the mental condition of her sex. She established a female school, which continued to flourish for a long time as a model institution for the region of the country in which she lived. Her work on Cookery obtained for her quite a celebrity as a housekeeper, and went through seven or eight editions. She next published "The German Reader." Then followed "The Education of Females in the Nineteenth Century." Soon afterwards appeared "The Education of Women, and the assertion of their dignity in the various Conditions of Life." She also prepared several primary grammars, and a number of other school-books, upon various topics. Her works have proved of much utility, and her life was a lesson to all who wish to do good to their race. She died March 27th., 1807, at the Institution founded by herself, a fitting monument of her earnest philanthropy