Rosa Kerschbaumer Putjata

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Remembering Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata in Salzburg, Schwarzstrasse 32

Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata (* 1851 near Moscow ; † 1923 in Los Angeles ) was a Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist.

Live and act

Rosa Putiata von Schlikoff was born near Moscow and grew up in a Russian noble family. At the age of 18 she was a mother of three. At 21, she studied medicine in Zurich and Bern , like her sister Virginia. She received her doctorate in 1876. Her specialty was ophthalmology. Together with her husband, an Austrian doctor, she set up a private ophthalmological institution in Salzburg on Schwarzstrasse. After separating from her husband, she continued to run the clinic on her own.

Since eye diseases occurred in Salzburg in an above-average number in relation to the entire Danube monarchy , which were due to poor medical care, she received permission from Emperor Franz Joseph to continue running the clinic in 1890 . This was all the more remarkable because at this time the women were not even studying medicine and therefore were not allowed to ordain. It was not until ten years later that women were also allowed to study in the monarchy. The clinic had 60 beds. Their activities have greatly reduced the number of people suffering from old age blindness. She also cared for many patients for free. For this reason she is also known in Salzburg as the angel with the scalpel . You can even find them mentioned on votive tablets , as in Maria Plain , because of their charity.

In 1896, however, she left Salzburg and returned to Russia. In St. Petersburg she taught at the medical academy. From 1897 to 1903 she operated so-called hiking clinics along the Trans-Siberian Railway . From 1903 she was in charge of a clinic in Tbilisi, but later came back to Vienna .

In 1911 she emigrated to America. She died in Los Angeles in 1923.

In her honor, a street in the Science City in Salzburg- Itzling , the Rosa Kerschbaumerstraße , was named after her in 2008 .

Fonts

  • The sarcoma of the eye. Leipzig 1900.

literature

  • Kerschbaumer pink. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 308.
  • Sabine Veits-Falk: Rosa Kerschbaumer-Putjata (1851-1923). ISBN 978-3-900213-07-7
  • Felicitas Seebacher: Roses for the Gentlemen. The "question of women's rights" in medical studies at the University of Vienna before 1897 . In: Michal Kokowski (ed.): The Global and the Local: the History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Cracow, September 6-9, 2006) online publication: http://www.2iceshs.cyfronet.pl/proceedings.html , pp. 557-565.
  • Felicitas Seebacher: The power of the idea. Rosa Kerschbaumer and the opening of the University of Vienna to the “opposite” sex. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): 10 years of “making women visible” . biografiA - database and lexicon of Austrian women. Communications from the Institute for Science and Art 63, 1–2 (2008), pp. 50–56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Social Science History Conference ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.iisg.nl
  2. ↑ Main street named after "Angel of the Blind" . ORF of March 24, 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Kerschbaumer-Putjata, pink
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Austrian ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH near Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 1923
Place of death los Angeles