Anna Honzáková

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Anna Honzáková 1902
Plaque to practice in Prague's Na ulici Moráni

Anna Honzáková (born November 16, 1875 in Kopidlno , † October 13, 1940 in Prague ) was a Czech doctor. On March 17, 1902, she became the first woman to graduate from Charles University in Prague to study medicine.

Life

Anna Honzáková was born into a family of doctors in Northern Bohemia. In Prague she attended the girls' grammar school " Minerva ", which Eliška Krásnohorská helped to found in 1890 , the first of its kind in Austria-Hungary . After graduating from high school in 1895, she wanted to study medicine like her brother Bedřich (1870–1933). After the application was initially rejected, she was allowed to attend medical courses as a guest student at the German faculty of Charles University in 1897 , and three years later also at the Czech faculty, although she was not admitted to exams. Only with decrees of 1897 and 1900 were women allowed to study regularly at the Philosophical Faculty (at the time including mathematics and natural sciences) and the Medical Faculty. Marie Zdenka Baborová was the first woman in 1901 to graduate with a doctorate (in zoology) in Prague. Gabriele Possanner , who was the first woman in Austria-Hungary to receive a doctorate in medicine in Vienna on April 2, 1897 , had already completed a medical degree in Switzerland in 1894 with a doctorate.

In 1902 Honzáková passed the medical exam and worked in the hospital for three years. She was denied an internship at the university because a woman was not trusted with authority. Honzáková therefore opened a private gynecological practice in the New Town of Prague in 1905 , where she practiced for 35 years. In the 1920s she campaigned for the legalization of abortion and advocated education about contraception . Honzáková was one of the founders of the Czech Women's Club (Ženský klub český) in Prague with Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk .

Honzáková was not married and had no children. The educator and Czech women's rights activist Albina Honzáková (1877–1973) was her sister.

See also

Works

  • Dr. Med. Anna Bayerová 1853–1924, první česká lékařka ve Švýcarech , nákladem Ženské Nár. Rady, Prague 1937.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Czech Wikipedia " Minerva (dívčí gymnázium) "
  2. ↑ The admission of women to study law and theology came after the end of the First World War
  3. ↑ The degree with the predicate Sub auspiciis Imperatoris , the highest predicate of the imperial and royal monarchy , has not (yet) been proven.
personal data
SURNAME Honzáková, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honzakova, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Kopidlno
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1940
Place of death Prague