There have been instances where teachers who are supposed to help students learn by imparting knowledge to them and by setting up a situation in which students can and will learn effectively end up having a romantic relationship with their students.
In this article, we will be looking at some notable teachers who developed romantic relationships with their students and end up marrying them.
What teachers married their students?
Basically, it is unprofessional for a teacher to have a romantic relationship with his or her student, however, we do hear and see instances where teachers develop a love for their students and eventually tie the knot with them.
Here is a list of teachers who married their students.
- Peter Abélard married Héloïse d’Argenteuil
- Jackie Battley married future U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (1962)
- Abhijit Banerjee, an economist, had children with and later married economist Esther Duflo, and they later jointly won the Nobel Prize for Economics together.
- Charles Melville Dewey married Julia Henshaw.
- James Earle Fraser married Laura Gardin Fraser,
- Robert Henri was twice married to students of his, Linda Craige (1898) and Marjorie Organ (1908)
- Walter Kerr married Jean Kerr in 1943.
- Aliza Kezeradze married Ivo Pogorelić in 1980.
- Mary Kay Letourneau married Vili Fualaau in 2005.
- Arthur Frank Mathews married Lucia Kleinhans.
- Olivier Messiaen married Yvonne Loriod.
- Brigitte Trogneux married her former high school student Emmanuel Macron in 2007, who is currently serving as President of France
