Irma Tschudi-Steiner

Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Irma Tschudi-Steiner (born February 11, 1912 in Solothurn as Irma Steiner; † October 27, 2003 in Basel ; resident in Hersiwil SO) was a Swiss pharmacist . She was Basel's first private lecturer at the Phil. Nat. Faculty and first professor of pharmacy in Bern . She was the wife of Federal Councilor Hans-Peter Tschudi .

Life and work

Irma Steiner was the daughter of the work teacher Emilie Steiner-Gubler and the senior teacher Emil Steiner. She actually wanted to become a piano virtuoso. Since she didn't think she had a chance in this profession, she studied pharmacy in Basel. After the pharmaceutical state examination in 1936, she did her doctorate in 1938 at the phil. nat. Faculty with summa cum laude, after the medical state examination in 1947, she received her doctorate in 1949 at the med. Faculty. Supported by the later Nobel Prize winner Tadeusz Reichstein , she completed her habilitation in 1950 as the first female lecturer at the Basel Faculty of Natural Sciences. Irma Steiner married the lawyer and SP politician Hans-Peter Tschudi in 1952. After his election to the Federal Council in 1959, she took up a professorship in Bern. Here she taught from 1961 as a private lecturer, from 1969 to 1982 as an associate professor for pharmaceutical specialties. Irma Tschudi-Steiner laid the foundation for the modern training of pharmacists and sought to encourage women at the university.

In 2003 she donated the Irma Tschudi Prize . The prize is awarded in Basel for the best pharmaceutical dissertation written by a woman.

Awards

Irma Tschudi-Steiner received the prize and the medal from the Golaz Fund for the promotion of pharmaceutical science in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

• Fluorescence microscopic examinations of bark powders with the aid of reagents. Basel, 1939. Diss. Phil. nat. Basel 1938.
• The historical development of chemical ergot research up to 1918. Basel, 1951. Diss. Med. Basel 1949.
• Changes in the pharmaceutical industry, Zurich 1952

literature

• François Ledermann : Tschudi (-Steiner), Irma. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2014.
• Hörmann Ursula Claudia, The Academic Training of Pharmacists in the Canton of Bern, Bern, 1998.
• Zurbriggen Brigitte, «... And women in particular turned in droves to studying pharmaceuticals ...» On the history of female pharmacists in Switzerland, Bern, 2000
• Rogger Franziska , children, war and career. Self-portraits from the mid-20th century, Bern, 2016