Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer

(1894-1957)

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1894

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1957

Profession: suffragette, chemist, feminist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer

  • Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer (born on March 2, 1894 in New York, died on October 24, 1957 in Zurich) was a Swiss women's rights activist and President of the International Council of Women.Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer was the daughter of Dr.
  • Fritz Schwyzer and grew up in New York.
  • She studied chemistry at the University of Zurich and was awarded her doctorate in 1919.
  • The following year, she married the chemist and Professor of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Robert Eder (1885-1944).
  • She was the mother of two daughters, the physicist Monika Eder and Ursula Elisabeth Eder, better known as Ulla Dydo, noted Gertrude Stein scholar. Eder-Schwyzer was co-founder of a home for women students in Zurich and collaborator on the "Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work" (Saffa) in 1928.
  • She was involved in the petition for Women's suffrage in Switzerland in 1929, and was a promoter of the Swiss and Zurich Association of Women Academics, which she presided from 1935 to 1938.
  • From 1939 on, she participated in women's politics at several levels: as president of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland's women's group in Zurich (which she co-founded in 1935); as President of the Association for Women's Voting Rights (SVF) in the canton of Zurich; as a member of the civilian women's auxiliary service, from which she retired in 1945.
  • She led the 3rd Swiss Women's Congress in 1946 and subsequently participated in the establishment of the Swiss Institute for Home Economics (SIH, 1948-1992).
  • She was president of the women's group of the Swiss Enlightenment Service from 1947 to 1950, was a member (1949–1957) of the board of the Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine (BSF), and was sent by the BSF to the Swiss UNESCO Commission, from 1949 to 1954.
  • Eder-Schwyzer was President of the International Council of Women from 1947 until her death in 1957.

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