Franziska Tiburtius

Franziska Tiburtius ( born January 24, 1843 the estate Bisdamitz on Rügen, † May 5, 1927 in Berlin) was a German doctor and campaigner for women's studies.

Life

Born as tenants daughter on Rügen, Tiburtius completed a private girls' school in Stralsund. After graduation, she spent several years governess and educator at Baron Lyngen in Werbelow ( 1860-66 ), governess in the house of the Lord of Behr Schmoldow (1867 ) as well as a teacher in Rambin on Rügen (1868 ) worked. In 1870 she went to London as a teacher, then she was a teacher in Walton Rectory ( Surrey, between Epson and Rygate ). After the teachers exam in Stralsund, she decided to study medicine itself - an unusual decision for a woman of her time.

Due to the pressure prevailing in Germany Studierverbotes for women Tiburtius went to Zurich, as only Switzerland had opened their universities for women at that time and offered them the right to award doctorates. Motivated to this decision she had her brother Karl Tiburtius, maybe its subsequent sister Henriette Hirschfeld- Tiburtius, who had studied in the U.S. itself. In 1871 she took in Zurich to study medicine and in 1876 received his doctorate of medicine. Then she spent another six weeks at her mother in Rambin on Rügen. As she later described in her memoirs, Tiburtius has already been taken there as a doctor in claim; shortly before her departure her proposed the villagers to remain virtually as a salaried municipal doctor there. However, it took the professional career again and went as a volunteer doctor to Leipzig and then to the Women's Hospital in Dresden. Despite the members in Zurich professional license they still got no license to practice in Dresden, after which she went to Berlin.

Work

In Berlin Tiburtius opened with their fellow student Emilie Lehmus own practice in the Old Schönhauser Straße 23 / 24th As the first German physicians in private practice both for years public hostility and reservations of the male medical profession saw exposed. Although they were allowed to practice, but they had to as " Dr. med in Zurich " to report what they had the status under health practitioner. The title " doctor " was not granted to them, as this was bound to a German license. With another classmate, the German doctor Agnes Hacker (1860-1909), opened Franziska Tiburtius nevertheless, in 1908 the Department of Surgery of female doctors. In this particular clinic women were included who belonged to no health insurance. At the needy drug was distributed free of charge.

Tiburtius was involved in the women's movement and in particular the repeal of the Studierverbots for women in Germany. However, in 1908 women were admitted as students at Prussian universities in medicine and from 1914 for approval only in the year.

1908 Franziska Tiburtius put to rest. In the following years she traveled among other things, America, North Africa and European destinations. She died in 1927 in Berlin.

Franziska Tiburtius is considered the first German female doctor and the modern period. My varied life she wrote in her autobiography, memoirs of an octogenarian. In it she tells of her childhood, among other complaints.

Writings

• Memories of an octogenarian. Schwetschke & Sohn, Berlin, 1923. 2nd enlarged edition 1925. 3rd edition 1929 information on the content and requirements.

Honors

• The former Stralsund District Hospital, now the " Hospital on the Sound ", founded in 1987, a prize medal, which was awarded in 1988 as Science Award every year to the day of health care.

• In 2002, the " Stralsund Philatelists Club 1946 eV " for the 75th anniversary of his death devoted her a commemorative envelope with a picture of Tiburtius Medal. Matches it was a special ( 18439 Stralsund 1) with the portrait of a doctor.