Else Rosenthal

Else Rosenthal , née von der Leyen (born October 13, 1874 in Bremen , † September 26, 1908 in Berlin ), was one of the first students to enroll at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University . She passed her state examination at the University of Halle and was the first woman to be accepted into the Berlin Association of Freely Elected Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and employed as a statutory health insurance physician. At the time, she was the only woman among 22 medical doctors in Berlin.

Life

Cover sheet of the student file

During her school days, she attended the higher girls' school in Charlottenburg. Before her studies, Else Rosenthal completed the high school courses for women in Berlin together with Irma Klausner . She finally passed her Abitur in 1896 at the Royal Luisengymnasium and in the same year began studying medicine in Berlin, initially as a student. In May 1900 she matriculated for the summer semester at the Medical Faculty in Heidelberg. Her matriculation number was 408. With her, Georgine Sexauer , Irma Klausner and Rahel Straus were the first full female students at the university. Many of the professors initially wanted to deny women access to their courses. The following semester, she moved with Irma Klausner to Halle, where she made her state exam took off and with a dissertation in the field of pathology doctorate as well as the approval was given as a doctor.

From October 1902 she worked as the first female health insurance doctor for the company health insurance fund of the Great Berlin Tram , in the polyclinic for female doctors and women and for the commercial and industrial aid association for female doctors in Berlin. Rosenthal was the only woman among 22 doctors and was very busy as a health insurance doctor. In 1907 her fee was about eight times the average annual income of her male colleagues. In 1902, together with Irma Klausner, she was the first woman to join the Berlin Association of Freely Elected Statutory Health Insurance Physicians .

In September 1908 she had an accident while driving to a patient in an elevated railway crash at Berlin's Gleisdreieck .

Works

Via plasma cells in pathologically altered tissues . Hall a. S., Diss. Med., July 9, 1901.

literature

Wolfgang U. Eckart: "At first only on a trial basis" - 100 years ago: The first female medical students move into the University of Heidelberg . In: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city , 4th year 1999, p. 89. (PDF; 53 kB, accessed on April 1, 2020)
Marco Birn: Education and Equal Rights. The beginnings of women's studies at the University of Heidelberg (1869 to 1918) . Kurpfälzischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012.

Web links

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Doctors in the German Empire , accessed on April 1, 2020.
Matriculation 408 of the University of Heidelberg , accessed on April 1, 2020.
University of Heidelberg. "Above all, it was the desire to learn, to know". In 1900, four female students from Ruperto Carola pioneered women's studies in Germany. Retrieved April 1, 2020.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Doctors in the Empire. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
^ University of Heidelberg .: "Above all, it was the desire to learn, to know". In 1900, four female students from Ruperto Carola pioneered women's studies in Germany. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
^ Heidelberg, University Archives, UAH M13 Matriculation of Heidelberg University 1386-1920: UAH M13: 1895-1906 (Heidelberg, 1895-1906). Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart: "At first, however, only on a trial basis" - 100 years ago: The first female medical students move into the University of Heidelberg . In: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city , 4th year 1999, p. 89.

personal data
SURNAME	Rosenthal, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	von der Leyen, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, one of the first female students at Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1908
Place of death	Berlin

[:0-1] Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Doctors in the Empire. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .

[2] University of Heidelberg .: "Above all, it was the desire to learn, to know". In 1900, four female students from Ruperto Carola pioneered women's studies in Germany. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .

[3] Heidelberg, University Archives, UAH M13 Matriculation of Heidelberg University 1386-1920: UAH M13: 1895-1906 (Heidelberg, 1895-1906). Retrieved April 2, 2020 .

[4] Wolfgang U. Eckart: "At first, however, only on a trial basis" - 100 years ago: The first female medical students move into the University of Heidelberg . In: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city , 4th year 1999, p. 89.