Fanny Hertz

Fanny Hertz (1830 – 31 March 1908) was a British educationalist and feminist who worked to establish and promote various institutions for female education in Bradford.

Early life Hertz was born in Hanover in Germany to diamond merchant Bram Hertz. She counted herself a descendant of Heinrich Hertz. She moved to London in 1837, and lived in both London and Bradford during that decade. She married her cousin, mill owner and yarn merchant William David Hertz at St James's Church, Westminster in 1851, with whom she had three children. Their Bradford home served as a meeting place for artists, thinkers and radicals.

She served on the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women and Maria Grey's National Union for Improving the Education of Women of All Classes. In 1876, she published a translation of a chapter from Auguste Comte's System of Positive Polity. Her husband died in 1880, whilst Hertz herself died in 1908 in her Lansdowne Crescent home.