Agatha Streicher

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Agatha Streicher (also Agathe Streicher) (* 1520 ; † 1581 ) was the first recognized German doctor .

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Agatha Streicher was the only resident doctor in the imperial city of Ulm . Although she could not attend university as a woman , she possessed a profound medical knowledge (possibly acquired through her brother Hans Augustin, who was a doctor of medicine). In 1561 she took the doctor's oath on the Ulm order. Her healing successes were known far beyond the city limits. Numerous high-ranking personalities, such as the Princess of Hohenzollern or the Bishop of Speyer , traveled to Ulm to be treated by her. As the highest professional recognition she was appointed to the bedside of Emperor Maximilian II in Regensburg in 1576 , where she traveled down the Danube on a raft specially equipped by the Ulm Council. Although she could no longer cure the emperor, she was able to alleviate his suffering, and she is said to have remained on his deathbed until his death.

Agatha Streicher remained unmarried and was also successful as a businesswoman and an important lender for the city of Ulm, but also devoted herself to charitable tasks. Because of her religious conviction as a follower of Schwenckfeld's teaching (a spiritualistic movement), she was also exposed to hostility.

The writer Ursula Niehaus processed her life in the novel Die Stadtärztin .

Honors

  • Agathe-Streicher-Weg in Ulm
  • Car of the tram Ulm with her name
  • Memorial stele on the Hans-und-Sophie-Scholl-Platz in Ulm

literature

  • Lore Sporhan-Krempel : Agatha Streicher. In: Ulm and Oberschwaben 35 (1958), pp. 174-180.
  • Lore Sporhan-Krempel: Agatha Streicher. In: Lebensbilder from Swabia and Franconia VII (1960), pp. 52–61.
  • Lore Sporhan-Krempel: Agatha Streicher, doctor from Ulm (around 1520 - 1581). In: Diethard E. Klein (Ed.): Swabian women pictures. Mühlacker 1986, pp. 27-26.
  • K. Börchers: Ulm women have a history . 1992, pp. 42-45
  • Ilse Schulz : Drifted Traces - Women in City History . Ulm, 1998
  • Lore Sporhan-Krempel: Agatha Streicher. In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.): Baden-Württembergische Portraits , 1999, pp. 16–22
  • Isabella Pfaff: Agatha Streicher. In: Lots of women . Stuttgart, 2000, pp. 161-163
  • Norbert Conrads: Anna Würster, the first privileged doctor in Silesia (1657) . In: Konrad Goehl , Johannes Gottfried Mayer (Hrsg.): Editions and studies on Latin and German specialist prose of the Middle Ages. Festgabe for Gundolf Keil on his 65th birthday, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000 (= Texts and Knowledge , 3), pp. 1–15; here: pp. 7–10.
  • Heinz-Peter Mielke:  STREICHER, Agatha. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1410-1411.
  • Ursula Niehaus: Die Stadtärztin , Roman, Knaur HC, 2014, ISBN 9783426663608
  • Eberhard J. Wormer :  Streicher, Agatha. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 533 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil : Streicher, Hans Augustin. In: Supplements to the author's dictionary. Edited by Gerhard Eis and Gundolf Keil. Studia neophilologica 43, 1971, 2, pp. 420-423
  2. ↑ Article by Sabrina Schatz: The story of city doctor Agathe Streicher , Südwestpresse Ulm, May 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Strings, Agatha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strings, Agathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1520
DATE OF DEATH 1581