Anna Tumarkin

Anna Tumarkin

Anna Tumarkin , born as Anna ester Pavlovna Tumarkina ( Russian Анна-Эстер Тумаркина or Russian Анна Павловна Тумаркина scientific. Transliteration Anna ester Tumarkina * 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th February  1875 ^greg. In Dubrowno , Russian Empire , today Belarus ; † August 7, 1951 in Gümligen ) was a Swiss philosopher of Russian-Jewish origin.

Life

Anna Tumarkin grew up in a Jewish merchant family in Chisinau , where she spent her childhood up to secondary school. In 1892, at the age of 17, Tumarkin went to Bern to study. She studied German literature, history and philosophy at the University of Bern and graduated in 1895 with top marks. After a three-year stay in Berlin , where she devoted herself to aesthetics , she returned to Bern in 1898 for her doctorate.

She was the first female professor in Europe who had the full rights to examine doctoral and post-doctoral candidates and to take a seat in the Senate. She achieved the title of Extraordinaria in 1908 at the University of Bern through a proper academic path. It was not procured for her ad personam , as was the case with Sofja Kowalewskaja in Stockholm in 1884 . In 1906 Tumarkin had become an associate professor . In 1898 she was the first woman to receive her habilitation in Bern and, after Emilie Kempin-Spyri from Zurich and Ida Welt from Geneva, the third woman in Switzerland . In 1937 she was awarded the Theodor Kocher Prize in Bern for her philosophical work .

Having become stateless through the political turmoil in her former Russian homeland , Tumarkin successfully applied for Swiss citizenship in 1921 at the age of 46 .

Anna Tumarkin campaigned for Swiss women's suffrage . In 1928 she worked on the 1st Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work (SAFFA) . Tumarkin was the lifelong partner of Ida Hoff , the first female school doctor in Bern. With her she shared a living, grave and inheritance community.

Tumarkinweg

Tumarkin's estate is in the Bern State Archives . In 2000, the Tumarkinweg was named in her honor in Bern, a footpath that leads past her former lecture room in the main building of the University of Bern.

Works

• Herder and Kant (= Bern studies on philosophy and its history , Volume 1). Siebert, Bern 1896 OCLC 729054116 (dissertation University of Bern 1895 110 pages).
• Spinoza . Eight lectures held at the University of Bern . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1908
• The romantic worldview . Haupt, Bern 1920
• Prolegomena to a scientific psychology . Meiner, Leipzig 1923
• The methods of psychological research . Teubner, Leipzig 1929
• The aesthetician Johann Georg Sulzer (= Switzerland in German intellectual life , Volume 79/80) Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1933, DNB 362914885
• The essence and development of Swiss philosophy . Huber, Frauenfeld 1948

literature

• Rogger Franziska, Der Doktorhut im Besenschrank, Bern 1999, pp. 164–175
• Regula Ludi : Tumarkin, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon on life and work. Reinbek 1993 ISBN 3-499-16344-6
• Tumarkin, Anna. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 , pp. 141-144.
• Bettina Vincenz: honest women or champions? The Swiss Association of Women Academics (SVA) in the interwar period. Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-198-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anna Tumarkin, philosopher (1875-1951). In: University of Bern. Retrieved May 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Education of Anna Turmakin

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Tumarkin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography (russian)
• another biography (Russian)
• The pioneers of the University of Bern (PDF; 70 kB)