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Margarete Berent

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What

Margarete Berent was the first female lawyer to practice in Prussia and the second female lawyer ever licensed in Germany.

When

9 July 1887

Biography

Margarete Berent is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Margarete Berent was the first female lawyer to practice in Prussia and the second female lawyer ever licensed in Germany.

How & why

Margarete Berent was the first female lawyer to practice in Prussia and the second female lawyer ever licensed in Germany. 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 Gudrun Maierhof, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Gudrun Maierhof

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Margarete Berent was the first female lawyer to practice in Prussia and the second female lawyer ever licensed in Germany.

1887

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Gudrun Maierhof