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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Elisabeth |
Surname: | Altmann-Gottheiner |
Name of birth: | Gottheiner |
Profession: | Lecturer, women's rights advocate |
Birthday: | 03/26/1874 |
Place of birth: | Berlin |
Date of death: | 10/21/1930 |
Place of death: | Mannheim |
Married since: | 1906 |
Married to: | Sally Altmann |
Education: | University studies (economics) in London and Berlin, from 1902 in Zurich; 1903 doctorate |
Career: | 1908 first woman lecturer at the Commercial College in Mannheim; from 1924 part-time professor extraordinarius |
Memberships: | 1924 council member, International Council of Women (ICW); 1925 founding member of the German Federation of University Women (DAB); 1926–30 German Association of Women University Lecturers (Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen Deutschlands); 1927 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Fellowships Committee |
Biographical literature: | Salomon, “Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner zum Gedächtnis,” *Die Österreicherin* 9 (1930): 4; [Neue Deutsche Biographe, Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner](http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz734.html) |
Major works: | *Studien über die Wuppertaler Textilindustrie und ihre Arbeiter in den letzten 20 Jahren* (diss.; Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1903); editor of the periodical *Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung* (from 1912); *Die Berufsaussichten der deutschen Akademikerinnen* (Halle: Niemeyer, 1921) |
Links: | [Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner Preis](http://www.uni-mannheim.de/1/universitaet/partner_ehrungen/partner/stiftungen/elisabeth_altmann_gottheiner_preis/index.html) |