Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County
About Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner
- Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (August 22, 1871 – August 3, 1935) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born German bacteriologist and physician, known for her research on tuberculosis and public health.
- She was the second woman to become a Professor in Prussia. Lydia Rabinowitsch was born at Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania).
- She was educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently studying natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern (MD).
- After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Robert Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases.
- She became the second woman in Prussia employed as a professor, and the first in Berlin. In 1895 she went to Philadelphia, where she was appointed lecturer and, subsequently, professor at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
- There she founded a bacteriological institute, though still continuing her studies every summer under Professor Koch in Berlin. In 1896 she delivered before the International Congress of Women at Berlin a lecture on the study of medicine by women in various countries.
- At the congress of scientists held at Breslau in 1904 she presided over the section for hygiene and bacteriology. In 1898 she married Dr.
- Walter Kempner (1869-1920) of Berlin, and returned to Berlin.
- Their son Walter Kempner (jr.) (1903-1997) was also a medical doctor.
- He was known for his rice diet.
- Their other son was the jurist Robert Kempner (1899-1993).
- A daughter, Nadja Kempner, died from tuberculosis in 1932. She died in 1935 in Berlin, aged 63, from undisclosed causes.
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