Augustin Rösler

Augustin Rösler, C.Ss.R. (6 March 18512 April 1922) was a Prussian theologian and sociologist, and a Redemptorist priest, who wrote both on the history of Christianity and contemporary issues. His best known work is Die Frauenfrage vom Standpunkte der Natur, der Geschichte und der Offenbarung , a treatise on the woman question published in 1893 (with a significantly expanded second edition in 1907).

Personal life Rösler was born in Góra on 6 March 1851.

He died in Wrocław on 2 April 1922. In 1893, his Die Frauenfrage vom Standpunkte der Natur, der Geschichte und der Offenbarung, translated as (The Woman Question, Considered from the Standpoint of Nature, History, and Revelation) was widely reviewed.

The work was a reply to August Bebel's book Die Frau und der Sozialismus. while at the same time stressing that a woman's freedom lies in her ability to fulfill her role as a mother.

In 1899, Franz Hitze invited Rösler to discuss the woman question at a conference titled Praktisch-Sozialer Kursus in Strasbourg. Rösler decided to write Wahre und Falsche "Frauen-Emanzipation," which translates to True and False Emancipation of Women, which contained the same content as the speech, but with a more detailed discussion of the topics of women at medical university courses and women's suffrage. More specifically, Rösler, on the one hand, demands that women deserve more rights than they have in certain fields, but on the other hand he argues that their rights should only be enough to help with her task as a mother and wife.

Reception Rösler's call for more rights for women, although limited, were seen as too liberal by many bishops of the time.

Works

Rösler, Augustin (1907, 2nd expanded edition). Die Frauenfrage vom Standpunkte der Natur, der Geschichte und der Offenbarung (in German). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagshandlung, 1907. (Reprinted by Alphonsus-Buchhandlung in Münster in 1904). In 2023, a new edition was published in modern script, edited by Florian Schirmer.