Hedwig Frey

Hedwig Frey (born on October 21, 1877 in Zurich , died on December 24, 1938 in Braunwald , resident in Zurich) was a Swiss anatomist .

Life

Hedwig Frey was the daughter of the businessman Johann Heinrich Frey and his wife Johanna, née Gimper. She completed her teacher training in Zurich in 1897 and began attending lectures at the university there in 1905 . She was not allowed to study medicine, but in 1908 she began studying anthropology and anatomy , which she financed through private tuition and graduated in 1912. She then became an assistant at the Anatomical Institute in Zurich and in 1918 was promoted to private lecturer in anatomy and developmental history after she had submitted her post- doctoral thesis Contribution to the transformation process of the thorax . From 1920 to 1938 she was employed as a prosector .

In 1924 Frey received the titular professorship from the University of Zurich, making it the first female professor of anatomy in Switzerland. Her research area was the phylogenetic anatomy of the trunk skeleton and the leg muscles. She was also active in anatomical professional associations and in the Swiss Association of Women Academics .

literature

• Maria Plangger-Vavra: The anatomist Hedwig Frey (1877–1938): First female professor at the University of Zurich. Zurich, 1988, ISBN 978-3-260-05226-2 .
• Iris Ritzmann: Frey, Hedwig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .