Sophie Jourdan

Sophie Jourdan (born December 1, 1875 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † after 1944) was a German doctor . She was among the first women at the University of Rostock to study were admitted. Jourdan was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock.

Life

Sophie Jourdan was born in 1875 in Mülheim an der Ruhr as the daughter of Karl Jourdan, a tax advisor by profession, and his wife Margarethe (née Etienne). The family moved to Berlin , where Jourdan attended the Sophien-Realgymnasium , where she graduated from high school in 1907. Before studying medicine, Jourdan had already passed the teacher examination and worked as a teacher for a while. Before she could matriculate in Rostock in 1909 , Jourdan was at the universities in Berlin , Kiel and Halleand Rostock admitted as a listener. Jourdan successfully passed the medical state examination in Rostock in 1912 and was the first woman to receive his doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock in 1913. Topic of her dissertation, graded cum laude : “Experiences with the transperitoneal path in operations on the spine”.

After completing her studies, Jourdan returned to Berlin, where she worked as a doctor from 1913 to 1944, initially as an intern at the Berlin University Children's Hospital. From 1914 to 1936 she practiced as a resident doctor, from 1937 to 1941 Jourdan switched to the infant welfare office in Kreuzberg as a doctor. Jourdan reported to the Schöneberg Health Department on January 25, 1944 that she was “evacuated to East Prussia without medical work and at the moment” (RÄK 1945).

Publications (selection)

• Sophie Jourdan: Experiences with the transperitoneal path in operations on the spine. medical dissertation, Rostock, 1912

literature

• Rostock University Archives, Sophie Jourdan files (1913).
• Barbara Hager: About the women's studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock. medical dissertation, Rostock, 1964
• Marianne Beese: Research on the women's movement and on women's studies in Rostock. In: Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Women's studies in Rostock. Reports by and about female academics (= Rostock Studies on University History, Volume 9). University of Rostock, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-86009-089-3 , pp. 9–40, especially p. 28 ( digitized version )
• Marianne Beese: Women's studies in Rostock from 1909/10 to 1945. Outlook to 1952. In: Gisela Boeck and Hans-Uwe Lammel (eds.): Women in science (= Rostock studies on university history, volume 16). University of Rostock, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-86009-115-9 , pp. 189–205, in particular pp. 192–194 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Sophie Jourdan, WS 1909 in Rostock Matrikelportal
• Sophie Jourdan, SS 1911 in the Rostock matriculation portal
• Free University of Berlin, Documentation Doctors in the Empire, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marianne Beese: Research on the women's movement and on women's studies in Rostock. In: Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Women's studies in Rostock. Reports by and about female academics (= Rostock Studies on University History, Volume 9). University of Rostock, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-86009-089-3 , pp. 9–40, especially p. 28 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Barbara Hager: About the women's studies at the medical faculty of the University of Rostock. medical dissertation, Rostock 1964, p. 51
3. ^ Sophie Jourdan on the website of the Free University of Berlin, Documentation Doctors in the Empire. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 15, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.