Paula Philippson
Paula Philippson (born March 9, 1874 in Berlin ; † July 21, 1949 in Basel ) was a German pediatrician and religious scholar .
Life
Paula Philippson came from a Jewish family of scholars. Her father was the doctor Moritz Philippson (1833–1877), her mother his cousin Meta Philippson.
Since she could not start studying as a woman in Germany, she studied medicine at the University of Zurich . She was only able to study in Germany after a change in legislation. She went to the universities of Strasbourg , Freiburg and Breslau , where she obtained her license to practice medicine in 1903 and her doctorate in 1904 . In 1907 Philippson settled in Frankfurt am Main as a pediatrician .
She came to study the ancient history of religion through a stay in Rome (1921). Then there were the suggestions of her uncle, the geographer Alfred Philippson . Since, as a Jew, she was no longer allowed to practice as a pediatrician from 1933, she devoted herself entirely to her research. From 1933 to 1938 she made several trips to Greece.
After the November pogroms in 1938 , Philippson fled to Switzerland and settled in Basel in 1939, where she spent the last ten years of her life as a private scholar. She tried in vain to have her uncle Alfred released from the Theresienstadt ghetto .
Paula Philippson's work dealt with the Greek religion in the context of geography and topography. This innovative research approach was taken up and further developed in religious studies. Although she had no prior archaeological or philological training, Philippson's work met with a positive response in the academic world.
literature
- Hans Möbius : Paula Philippson † . In: Gnomon . Volume 21 (1949), p. 279
- Hans Bänziger: In memoriam Paula Philippson. Born on March 9, 1874 in Berlin, died on July 21, 1949 in Basel . Basel 1950
- Johanna Philippson : “The Philippsons, a German-Jewish Family 1775-1933”. In: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 7 (1962), 95–118 (English)
- Philippson (family item). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001,ISBN 3-428-00201-6, pp. 395-397 ( digitized version).
Web links
- Literature by Paula Philippson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on Paula Philippson's estate in the Basel-Stadt State Archives ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Paula Philippson's estate affairs in Alfred Philippson's estate in the archive of the Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Bänziger (Ed.): In memoriam Paula Philippson. Memorial to her death . Private printing, Basel 1949, p. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Philippson, Paula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1949 |
| Place of death | Basel |