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Albertine Adrienne Necker de Saussure (9 April 1766, in Geneva – 13 April 1841, in Mornex,〔(Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse )〕 Vallée du Salève, near Geneva) was a Swiss writer, educationalist, and an early advocate of education for women. ==Life== She was the daughter of the Swiss scientist, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, who ensured she received the best education available at that time. Her father taught her himself. She knew English, German, Italian, and Latin. Additionally, she had scientific training; her religious views were broadminded and tolerant; and she supported her father's schooling in her later writings. She married a noted botanist who was the nephew and namesake of Louis XVI's finance minister, Jacques Necker, at age 19. The revolution ended Necker's military career and as a result they returned to Geneva in 1790, where he began teaching as demonstrator in botany at the Academie - he got the job because of his wife's surname.〔 She initially wrote her husbands botany lectures for him, and she educated her own children in a wide range of subjects, including science.〔 They lived with his aunt and uncle in ''Château de Coppet'', where she befriended his cousin, Germaine de Staël.〔 Her brother, Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure, became a noted chemist and researcher into plant physiology. Additionally, her great uncle Charles Bonnet, like her father, was a famous naturalist.〔 Albertine Necker de Saussure was a Calvinist. Necker de Saussure did not believe marriage to be the be-all end-all of women's existence, and she did not think that women should be educated solely to please men. She has been compared to Wollstonecraft for believing that single women have to maintain themselves through education.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albertine Necker de Saussure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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