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Gertrude Guillaume-Schack (9 November 1845 – 20 May 1903) was a German-born women's rights activist who pioneered the fight against state-regulated prostitution in Germany. She met considerable resistance due to the prevailing belief that such matters should not be discussed by respectable people, especially women. She also became active in organizing German women's workers associations, and was linked to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Her activities and political views caused her to be exiled by the German authorities. She moved to England in 1886, where she became involved in Socialist organizations but fell out with Friedrich Engels. After leaving the English Socialist League she became involved in theosophy, and her resulting refusal to accept medical treatment may have contributed to her early death of untreated breast cancer. == Early years == Gertrud Schack was born in the village of Uschütz, Silesia, near what is now Gorzów Śląski, on 9 November 1845. Her parents were Count Alexander Schack von Wittenau and Elizabeth, Countess of Königsdorf. Her father's family belonged to the old nobility of Lower Silesia.. Her father, Count Schack, was an open-minded and wise man who exercised great influence on his gifted daughter. When Gertrude was seventeen years, her parents left their estate and bought a villa in Beuthen an der Oder. Her father sent Gertrud to live with a sister, asking her to visit him often. In the autumn of 1873 she moved to Neufchatel, Switzerland. In 1876 she married a Swiss painter, and lived for a while with him in his parents' house. Her husband was Edouard Guillaume of Les Verrières, Neuchatel. Her brother-in-law was James Guillaume, an anarchist closely associated with Mikhail Bakunin. The newlyweds moved to Paris, but it turned out that her husband was not willing to commit himself to marriage and abandon his bachelor habits, and Gertrude was constrained to demand a divorce. In the summer of 1878 she returned home from Paris. 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「Gertrude Guillaume-Schack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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