Marianne Plehn

Marianne Plehn, conferred the title “Royal Professor” in 1914

Marianne Plehn (born October 30, 1863 in Lubochin, Province of Prussia ; today: Lubocheń ; † January 18, 1946 in Grafrath ) was a German scientist and a biologist specializing in fish, as well as the first German female professor in Bavaria .

Life

From 1890 to 1893, Plehn studied zoology , botany and geology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , the then Polytechnic (Department VI, natural science section) in Zurich . In 1893 she obtained her diploma as a specialist teacher in the natural sciences and then worked as an assistant at the university's zoological institute. She received her doctorate in 1896 as Dr. philosophiae (phil.), since the natural sciences were still part of the philosophy faculty . In Bremen she then taught at a new language girls' lyceum that had been newly founded.

Since 1898 she has been researching fish diseases at the Royal University of Veterinary Medicine, Munich , today's veterinary faculty of the LMU in Munich . She is one of the founders of fish pathology and one of the most important discoverers of pathogenic microorganisms . Because of her merits, she was the only woman to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the professors at the University of Veterinary Medicine as Doctor medicinae veterinariae (Dr. med. Vet.), Which has been awarded by the institution since 1910 .

Marianne Plehn's sister was the painter Rose Plehn ; both were friends with the writer Ricarda Huch . Her brothers were the tropical medicine specialists Albert (1861–1935) and Friedrich (1862–1904) as well as the forest scientist and colonial official Rudolf Plehn (1868–1899).

Awards

Honorary doctorate Dr. med. vet. of the University of Veterinary Medicine Munich
1914: Award of the title "Royal Professor" by King Ludwig III. from Bavaria

She is the namesake of Marianne-Plehn-Strasse in Munich and of the Marianne-Plehn program of the German National Academic Foundation especially for doctoral scholars in Bavaria.

literature

Brigitte Hoppe: Plehn, Marianne. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 525 ( digitized version ).
Eva Katzenberger: Marianne Plehn (1863-1946): an important fish pathologist , 1994, Munich, Univ., Diss., 1994

Web links

Literature by and about Marianne Plehn in the catalog of the German National Library

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^ ^A ^b Association of Feminist Science Switzerland: Just as new as bold: 120 years of women's studies at the University of Zurich . Ed .: Belser, Katharina. EFeF-Verlag, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-905493-01-2 , p. 159 .
^ Marianne-Plehn-Strasse. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
↑ by J. Peters, V. Weidenhöfer: History of the Veterinary Faculty Munich. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Plehn, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German scientist, biologist specializing in fish; first female German professor in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lubochin (now Lubocheń ), Province of Prussia , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1946
Place of death	Grafrath , Bavaria

[:0-1] A ^b Association of Feminist Science Switzerland: Just as new as bold: 120 years of women's studies at the University of Zurich . Ed .: Belser, Katharina. EFeF-Verlag, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-905493-01-2 , p. 159 .

[plehn-2] Marianne-Plehn-Strasse. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .

[ehrendoktor-3] y J. Peters, V. Weidenhöfer: History of the Veterinary Faculty Munich. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .