Margarete Janke-Garzuly
Margarete Rita Janke-Garzuly (born September 15, 1897 in Orsova , Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania ); died December 1, 1972 in Vienna , Austria) was the first woman to study at the Vienna University of Technology (today Vienna University of Technology ) PhD . She was the first woman to receive her habilitation in organic chemistry and was appointed lecturer a year later .
Life
Margarete Janke-Garzuly was born as the daughter of a chief inspector of the Hungarian river and sea shipping company and graduated from a girls' middle school in Bratislava . Later she attended the teacher training institute and passed the secondary school diploma externally .
Education
From 1917 to 1919 she studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and in Budapest. With the decree that had allowed women to study at the Technical University of Vienna for the first time ( decree of the Undersecretary for Education of April 7, 1919, Zl. 7183-Dept. 9), she was allowed to attend the Technical University in Vienna, now Technical University of Vienna , enroll as the first full student to study chemistry .
In 1921 she achieved her degree with the second state examination and received his doctorate as the first chemist at an Austrian University of Technology to Dr. techn . She received her doctorate from Max Bamberger with her thesis on the effect of hydrogen superoxy on the three nitro line in nitric acid solution . In 1940 she was the first woman to qualify for her habilitation in organic chemistry with a special focus on biochemistry (habilitation thesis: About Mannane ).
In 1921 she was one of the first women to work as a research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna, first with Bamberger and from 1928 to 1932 with Friedrich Böck at the chair for organic chemistry . She later had to give up this position because her husband, Dr. Alexander Janke, which she married in 1926, at the Technical College for o. Prof . for biochemical technology and microanalysis.
Between 1943 and 1945 she represented her husband's lectures because he fell ill. In 1945, like all people who had completed their habilitation during the Nazi era, her teaching license was withdrawn. However, she was able to get this back in 1955 through a newer habilitation process (habilitation thesis: Phosphorlipoide as haptens of the complement fixation reaction). In 1958 she was appointed associate professor.
literature
Web links
- Traces of women at the Vienna University of Technology - Margarete Janke-Garzuly . February 20, 2012
- The first time: pioneers from the Vienna University of Technology on derstandard.at . April 20, 2019
- As women, the technology-Unis conquered on orf.at . April 7, 2019
- Women's Day: TU Vienna shows "traces of women" from 90 years on diepresse.at . March 6, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ TU Vienna: Margarete (Rita) Janke-Garzuly - Many "firsts" and a broken career. In: www.frauenspuren.at. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 235.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janke-Garzuly, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garzuly, Rita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsova |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1972 |
| Place of death | Vienna |