Maria Schuhmeister

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Maria Schuhmeister (1905)

Maria Schuhmeister (born May 20, 1877 in Vienna ; † unknown) was the first woman to complete her medical degree in Austria . It was on 25 July 1905, the Karl-Franzens University in Graz for doctor of medicine doctorate and was a fellow student of Octavia Aigner-Rollett .

Biographical

Maria Schuhmeister was the daughter of Josef Schuhmeister, a middle school professor in Salzburg and later director of the teacher training institute in Klagenfurt.

education

Maria Schuhmeister graduated from the women's teacher training institute in Salzburg in 1897, where she passed her school leaving examination with distinction. She completed her grammar school studies entirely and exclusively under the supervision of her father, the director of the teacher training institute in Graz , and she passed the grammar school Matura examination on 1st k. and k. State high school in Graz in 1899. She then matriculated (mat. No. 12689) at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich in the winter semester of 1899, but returned to Graz after a short time. After a year of philosophical studies at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, she immediately began studying medicine in the winter semester 1900/1901, from which the medical faculty had opened for women. She passed all the exams with excellent results.

Further career

In 1906 Maria Schuhmeister was awarded the completed secondary doctor position at the municipal hospital in Baden near Vienna . In 1907 she opened her own practice in Baden, but left Austria in 1912 and went to the United States of America, where she married the doctor Arthur Heinemann in September 1917 and had a family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhold Aigner: The Graz doctors from the time of the monarchy; in: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark vol. 70, 1979, p.45-70.
  2. ↑ ariadne ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.onb.ac.at
  3. ↑ gsund.net
  4. ↑ There are different statements about this in the literature. (the author)
  5. ^ Matriculation edition of the University of Zurich ( Memento from August 10, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Wiener Bilder, No. 34, Vienna 1905, page 8
  7. ↑ The covenant. Central gazette of the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations. Volume 1, No. 3, Vienna, February 1906, page 10.
  8. ^ Durward Howes (Ed.): American Women. The Official Who's Who among the Women of the Nation . American Publications, Los Angeles 1935
personal data
SURNAME Shoe master, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1935