Fanny Berlin

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Fanny Berlin , married. Kaufman or Kaufmann, (born November 8 or 15, 1852 in Vitebsk ; died 1896 in Saint Petersburg ) was the first woman in Europe to receive a doctorate in law ( Bern , 1878).

Life

Fanny Berlin's father Moses (Moissei Jossifowitsch) was a teacher, publicist, civil servant and active in the Petersburg Jewish community. On October 18, 1873, he assured in a written, sealed and notarized "Certificate" that he would not oppose his daughter's wish to study at whatever faculty.

Fanny Berlin enrolled at the University of Bern on April 17, 1874 and was the first woman ever to enroll in the law faculty. She was not only the first Jus -Studentin, but also the first woman who was awarded his doctorate as a lawyer. Berlin doctorate on July 20, 1878, its contribution to Condictionenlehre at Emil Vogt with summa cum laude . Newspapers such as the Berliner Tagespost of July 24, 1878 or the Bernese Bund of July 27, 1878 reported on the first female doctor of law . The Berner Intelligence Journal speculated that this legal doctoral exam for a lady was one of the first ever at the continental universities. In fact, the well-known and highly respected pioneer lawyer Emilie Kempin-Spyri only received her doctorate nine years later, in July 1887 in Zurich. And it wasn't until 1900 that German and Austrian women were even allowed to study at their home universities.

family

Brother Leo Berlin, who also received his doctorate in Bern in 1878, dedicated his dissertation to his "sister Fanny Berlin, Doctor juris, lovingly". He became a well-known criminal lawyer. Fanny Berlin married Illarion Ignatjewitsch Kaufman (1848–1916), economist, banker and lecturer at St. Petersburg University. She became a prominent member of St. Petersburg high society .

Fonts

  • Contribution to the doctrine of conditions. Dissertation. Bern 1878

Honors

A bust of Fanny Kaufman-Berlin was exhibited in the Russian Art Academy in St. Petersburg .

Literature and archival material

  • Franziska Rogger: The doctoral hat in the broom cupboard. Bern 1999, pp. 111, 226, 235.
  • Doris Zäh, The first female students at the law faculty 1874–1914, seminar paper Bern 1992, pp. 32–34.
  • University of Bern, Rectorate and Senate files, vol. XI, 1871–1873, in: Staatsarchiv Bern BB III b 978.
  • University of Bern, Album Universitatis Bernensis, Vol. II, 1846–1877, in: Staatsarchiv Bern BB III b 1158. (Database: http://apps.uniarchiv.unibe.ch/syscomm/images/mata/2945_2957.gif )
  • University of Bern, Minutes of the Legal Faculty, meeting on July 20, 1878, in: Bern State Archives BB 8.2.215.
  • University of Bern, Quaestor's ledger, 1872–1878, in: Staatsarchiv Bern BB III b 817–819.
  • University of Bern, directories of authorities, teachers and students.
  • Berlin Fanny, Contribution to the doctrine of conditions, Diss. Jur. Bern 1878.
  • Berlin Leo, contribution to the doctrine of the adhesion process, Diss. Jur. Bern 1878.
  • Berliner Tagespost, July 24, 1878.
  • Bernese Confederation, July 27, 1878.
  • Bern intelligence paper, July 30, 1878.
  • Neue Bahnen, 1878, p. 172, article "Female Jurists".
  • Arne Duncker, Equality and Inequality in Marriage, Cologne 2003, p. 1054.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berlin, Moses (Moisei Josifovich) . Jewish Encyclopedia online, accessed June 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaufman, Fanny; Merchant, Fanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1850 or November 15, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH 1896
Place of death St. Petersburg