Marie Heim-Vögtlin

Marie Heim- Vögtlin ( born October 7, 1845 in Bözen / Aargau, † November 7, 1916 in Zurich ) was the first Swiss doctor. She was the first Swiss woman who completed the study of medicine at the University of Zurich and founded the first Swiss Women's Hospital.

Life

Vögtlin Marie was the daughter of the village priest of Bözen. In 1868 she expressed a desire to study medicine and become a doctor, what a Switzerland -wide scandal provoked. So far, only a few foreigners had studied at the University of Zurich (Europe's first university, the women admitted to regular studies ), as the first woman ever the Russian Nadezhda Suslova.

Your engagement with her cousin Friedrich Erismann, also a medical student, was released from this after two years. This home was in 1873 admitted to the examination, her father had written obtain a permit. After graduation, she specialized in Leipzig gynecologist and worked for several months in a maternity hospital in Dresden. On 11 July 1874, it put in Zurich from her doctoral examinations. Her dissertation was titled About the finding of the genitals in the puerperium. When she applied for admission to a medical practice, had to intervene again to her father.

She opened her practice in 1874 in Zurich. At first only hesitantly - and exclusively by women - attended, she could develop a good reputation and soon became one of the most popular doctors in the region.

1875 she married the geology professor Albert Heim. She had met him while studying in Zurich, but did not want to marry her profession because for the time being. Home agreed that it was able to work even after marriage. They had two children, Arnold and Helene.

Honors

On 11 July 1899, the foundation stone was laid for her female hospital nurse with affiliated school. The Zurich " Pflegi " was opened in 1901.

In addition to her work as a gynecologist Marie Heim-Vögtlin actively promoted women's suffrage and was active in the temperance movement. She died on November 7, 1916 due to lung disease and was buried in the cemetery Sihlfeld Zurich.

The first Swiss physician to honors, the MHV subsidies for qualified scientists awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, whose career is delayed due to family circumstances to be able to receive their chances of an academic career can.

Also in her honor was in 1995 a path that leads past the city Triemli, Women's Hospital Maternity Ward of the City Hospital Triemli and at the nursing school, named after her to Marie-Heim -Vögtlin way. In the so-called " Swiss quarter " in Berlin Lichterfelde there is another Marie -Vögtlin way.