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Elsa Neumann

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Elsa Neumann was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Berlin.

When

23 August 1872

Biography

Elsa Neumann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Elsa Neumann was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Berlin.

How & why

Elsa Neumann was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Berlin. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Annette B. Vogt, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annette B. Vogt

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Elsa Neumann was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree from the University of Berlin.

1872

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Annette B. Vogt