Emilie Lehmus
Emilie Lehmus ( born August 30, 1841 in Fuerth, † October 17, 1932 in Grafenberg ) was the first medical student in Germany and Berlin's first doctor.
Life
The daughter of the pastor Friedrich Eduard Th Lehmus had taken up the study of medicine in Zurich after the seminar teacher and language studies in Paris. After receiving his doctorate with honors and internship with Professor Winckel in Prague, she ran alongside her private practice in 1877 with a fellow student Franziska Tiburtius the first female doctors clinic for women and children in the Old Nice Straße 23 in Berlin -Mitte. In 1881 the two founded the health care institution for women, which was later expanded into a modern surgical clinic and especially young doctors and continuing education opportunities offered. In 1908, the Association of Women Doctors was launched, supported Lehmus this initiative with a donation of 16,000 Reichsmarks.
The Berlin mathematician Ludolph Lehmus (1780-1863) is her great-uncle.
On October 18, 1932, she was buried in the town cemetery in Fürth at the Erlanger Straße 97.
Importance
Emilie Lehmus was initially denied the recognition of training in Germany due to their gender. She was treated with baths and health practitioners, although she graduated exceptionally well, " Miss Emily Lehmus from Fürth, the first German woman who studied medicine in Zurich, made there in last week her exams and was awarded the predicate. It is this level in the last ten years, only six male examinee been bestowed " (Kölner Zeitung 1874).
At times Emilie Lehmus ' laughed the German Reichstag about female doctors and she complained itself - " On Virchow was odious " - about the rejection by the Berlin medical profession. On the occasion of the 100th birthday she was recognized for her performance and leadership of the German doctors in an obituary.
On 18 June 2006, in the Old Nice Allee 23 at the house in which they had in 1877 the " Polyclinic female doctors " opened, a plaque for Emilie Lehmus and Franziska Tiburtius attached.