Gabriele Possanner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gabriele Possanner

austrian doctor

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1860

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 14-Mar-1940

Profession: physician

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Gabriele Possanner (27 January 1860 – 14 March 1940) was the first female doctor to practice medicine in Austria.
She was the daughter of the Austrian jurist Benjamin Possanner, and lived in six different cities until the age of twenty due to him moving often for his work.
In October 1880 he was appointed as Section Chief at the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, and the family, including Gabriele, was able to settle in Vienna.As a doctor Gabriele initially worked as a public medical officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Muslim women refused to be seen by male doctors.
She had been given a medical degree by the University of Zurich in 1894, but it was not until 1897 that she was able to take the viva voce examination a second time, this time in front of Viennese examiners, thus qualifying her to practice as a doctor in Austria.
She thus became the first woman to graduate from the University of Vienna with a medical degree in 1897.
After that she was the only female doctor at an Austrian-Hungarian hospital until 1903.