Gerda Lerner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerda Lerner

Austrian-American women's history scholar

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1920

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 02-Jan-2013

Profession: screenwriter, writer, historian, university teacher, autobiographer

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and feminist author.
In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theater pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography.
She served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1980–81.
In 1980 she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991. Lerner was one of the founders of the academic field of women's history.
In 1963, while still an undergraduate at the New School for Social Research, she taught "Great Women in American History", which is considered to be the first regular college course on women's history offered anywhere.She taught at Long Island University from 1965 to 1967.
She played a key role in the development of women's history curricula and was involved in the development of degree programs in women's history at Sarah Lawrence College (where she taught from 1968 to 1979 and established the nation's first master's degree program in women's history) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she launched the first Ph.D.
program in women's history.
She also worked at Duke University and Columbia University, where she was a co-founder of the Seminar on Women.