Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Autograph Book and Papers, 1879-1885, 1910-1933 and undated

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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Autograph Book and Papers, 1879-1885, 1910-1933 and undated

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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (1871-1935) was a German bacteriologist and one of the first women to reach the rank of Professor in Germany. The Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Autograph Book and Papers date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century, and contain letters written to Rabinowitsch-Kempner from leading German scientists, as well as a reprint and three photographs. Correspondents include Robert and Hedwig Koch, Paul Ehrlich, Emil Behring, Richard Pfeiffer, and Alexandre Besredka, as well as calling cards with notations from Lord Joseph Lister, Elie (Ilija) Metchnikoff, and Albert Calmette. Many of the letters and calling cards are arranged in a bound scrapbook, and relate to personal as well as professional matters. The collection also contains a series of six letters from Max von Pettenkofer to Paul Lindau, editor of . Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University. Nord und Süd,

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Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Lydia 1871-1935

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Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (1871-1935) was a bacteriologist who studied tuberculosis. She was born in Kovno, Lithuania and studied in Zurich and Bern. In 1912, she became the first woman in Berlin and the second woman in Prussia to reach the rank of Professor. Rabinowitsch-Kempner worked with Robert Koch at the Institute for Infectious Diseases ( Institut für Infektionskrankheiten ). In 1895, Rabinowitsch-Kempner went to the United States to teach at the Women's Medical College in P...