Mononymous person town of Stendal, birthplace of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whom Stendhal admired. In the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (author of "Gigi", 1945), used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their given name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), became famous as Novalis. The 19th-century Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), better
Sidonie Werner (1906), a children's home in Bad Segeberg (1908), a children's home in Altona (1910), as well as several buildings in Bad Segeberg's Bismarkalle for children and mother care. In the late 1920s, she established a home for sick childdren in Wyk (1927), extending the facility in 1929. It was destroyed by fire in 1938. On the political front, representing the German Democratic Party, she was a candidate for the city elections in 1919 but was not elected. Sidonie Werner died in Bad Segeberg on 27 December 1932. Sidonie Werner Sidonie Werner (1860–1932) was a German Jewish schoolteacher and feminist based