Hilde mangold biography of rory gilmore
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Our story starts in 1898 in Germany, with the birth of a baby girl: Hilde Proescholdt.
Hilde mangold biography of rory gilmore
Hilde’s father was a merchant who owned a soap factory, and her mother was an activist who defended women’s rights.
The family was comfortably well off and liberal, so Hilde received a good education - an exception for girls at the time.
After graduating from high school, she was sent to a finishing school, although that didn’t last last long. After half a year, she enrolled at the local university, before quickly moving on again to the larger University of Frankfurt, where she studied zoology.
Hilde’s friends described her as a gifted, vivacious and charming young woman who was open, frank and cheerful.
‘She had a penetrating and reflective intellect and a lively sense of beauty in nature and the arts,’ said her friend, Viktor Hamburger, in a 1984 memoir.
Hilde soon identified an outlet for her talents and enthusiasm: scienti