Charlotte von Hezel, also known as Charlotte Henriette Hezel (née Schwabe; 8 January 1755, in Ilmenau – 3 April 1817, in Dorpat) was a German writer, editor and journalist. She was the first woman to publish a magazine under her own name, the Wochenblatt für's Schöne Geschlecht (English: "The Weekly Newspaper for the Fair Sex"). Life and work Hezel was the only daughter of four children of the pastor and superintendent Johann Wilhelm Schwabe and his wife Dorothea Crusius, a "talented Gelegenheitsdichterin (occasional poet)". She received a literary and musical education in her parents' house. Her three brothers received a university education and worked as ministers, lawyers and doctors. Hezel was mainly taught by her brother Heinrich Elias. On 14 June 1778, Charlotte married the private tutor and linguistic scholar Johann Wilhelm Friedrich von Hezel, with whom she initially lived near Ilmenau where Hezel, who had since been appointed imperial palatine, completed seven volumes of his Bible work with the help of his wife. Their sons had two sons and two daughters. Son Johann Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Hezel (1786–1831) completed a degree in philosophy and worked as a lawyer; the names and resumes of the other children are not known. In 1779, Hezel began to publish her newspaper, Wochenblatt für's Schöne Geschlecht, in Ilmenau. She was the first woman to publish a magazine – four years before Sophie von La Roche with her Pomona: Für Teutschlands Töchter (English: Pomona: For Germany's Daughters). Hezel not only dealt with topics such as fashion and housekeeping in the magazine, but also wanted to contribute to the education of women and published texts on art history and literature, on medicine and other scientific contributions. With the publication of this weekly, Charlotte von Hezel made a name for herself in the literary public and from then on was considered a literary and politically ambitious writer and editor. In 1786, her husband accepted an appointment as a "professor of exegesis and oriental literature" in Giessen, where the Hezel family lived until 1801. During this time, Henriette Hezel alongside other wives of University of Giessen lecturers founded the Women's Reading Society, using her friendship with Christoph Gottlieb von Murr. In 1801 the von Giessen family moved to Dorpat after Wilhelm Friedrich Hezel accepted a job there. Weekly Paper for the Fair Sex Women's magazines gradually became popular at the beginning of the 18th century (The world's