Adeline Rittershaus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philologist, Germanist, champion for the equality of women
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Place of Birth: Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Adeline Rittershaus
- Adeline Rittershaus (July 29, 1876 – September 6, 1924) was a German philologist, a scholar in old Scandinavian literature, and champion for the equality of women.
- She earned her doctorate in 1898, at the University of Zurich, being one of the first women to do so at that institution, and acquired in 1902, as the first woman, a Venia legendi at the Faculty of Arts of the same university.
- Her most famous work is a collection of Icelandic folk tales.
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