Anna Fischer-Dückelmann

Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856–1917). She was one of the first women to receive a medical degree in the German-speaking countries, received from the University of Zurich.[1] In 1896 she earned a degree at the University and at this time women were still not allowed to be enrolled in German universities or medical schools.[1] She has since been known as a naturopath and physician for women in Germany. She has published many books and they have been converted into many different languages.[2]

Anna Fischer-Dückelmann

Personal life

Daughter of Friedrich Dückelmann, an Austrian military doctor. She married Arnold Fischer and had three children all before 1890. She received her degree in 1896 from the University of Zurich. From 1897–1914 she had a medical practice for women and pediatrics in Dresden, Germany.

Works

Die Frau als Hausärztin (The Woman as a Family Doctor, 1901) was one of her best-known works.[3]

References
  1. Hoolihan, Christopher (1 November 2008). An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. University Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580462846 – via Google Books.
  2. Meyer, Paulette (2 December 2017). "Physiatrie and German maternal feminism: Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann critiques academic medicine". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 23 (1): 145–182. doi:10.3138/cbmh.23.1.145. PMID 17152243.
  3. Jütte, Robert (12 May 2008). Contraception: A History. Polity. ISBN 9780745632711 – via Google Books.
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