Dr. Leonore (Eleonore) Brecher

Title: Dr.
Prename: Leonore (Eleonore)
Surname: Brecher
Profession: Zoologist
Birthday: 10/14/1886
Place of birth: Botoșani (Austria-Hungary)
Date of death: 09/18/1942
Place of death: extermination camp Maly Trostenets near Minsk
Education: 1906 final high school examinations in Botosani; university studies (natural sciences) in Chernivtsi, from about 1915 in Vienna; 1916 doctorate, University of Vienna; 1917 teaching examinations and probationary year in teaching
Career: 1915–38 Biological Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences (with interruptions for research abroad); 1923 application for a university lecturer qualification (*Habilitation*) at the University of Vienna (rejected 1926 on antisemitic grounds); 1923–24 American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholarship at Rostock University; 1926–28 Institute of Pathology, University of Berlin, works with the zoologist Rhoda Erdmann; 1929–31 Yarrow Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, Biomedical Institute; 1930 Rostock, 1931–32 Kiel University, until 1933 supported by the Emergency Association of German Science; April 13, 1938, occupational ban following the annexation of Austria; failed attempts to emigrate with the support of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, International Federation of University Women, and International Federation of Business and Professional Women; receives affidavit for the United States on September 20, 1938, but plans for temporary emigration to Britain fail; September 14, 1942, deported from Vienna to the extermination camp Maly Trostenets near Minsk; killed on September 18, 1942
Memberships: Founding member, Association of Austrian University Women (VAÖ)
Biographical literature: Wolfgang L. Reiter, “Zerstört und vergessen: Die Biologische Versuchsanstalt und ihre Wissenschaftler/innen,” *Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften* 10 (1999), no. 4: 585–614; Klaus Taschwer, “Andenken an eine völlig vergessene Forscherin,” derstandard.at http://derstandard.at/1348283731761/Andenken-an-eine-voellig-vergessene-Forscherin (accessed May 12, 2014)
Major works: “Die Puppenfärbungen des Kohlweisslings, Pieris brassicae,” *Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen* 50 (1922), no. 1–2: 41–78; “Die Anpassung der Puppen durch das Raupenauge,” *Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie und Entwicklungsmechanik* 102 (1924), no. 4: 501–16; “Pigmentbildung bei Wirbellosen und Wirbeltieren,” *Tabulae Biologicae* 16 (1938): 140–61
Links: [Yad Vashem, the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names](http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=4930441&language=en)