Back to search results

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Collection

Enlarge text Shrink text
Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Lydia, 1871-1935 (Creator of the collection)
  • Archive

The collection includes manuscripts of Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner's lectures at The International Congress of Women in Berlin and other series of lectures she addressed in Germany, during the years 1901-1904; a notebook with her notes from Robert Koch's lectures she had attended; various cards and miscellanies documents.

Reference Code
Arc. 4* 1964
Dates
1901-1931
Consists of
0.2 meters..
Languages
German;
location
  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Collection.
Additional Titles כותרת בעברית: אוסף לידיה קמפנר-רבינוביץ'.
Notes Temporary record
no list.
Citation Note Arc. 4* 1964 Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Collection, Archives Department, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Host Item Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner Collection.
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Lydia Rabinowitsch was born to a Jewish family at Kovno, Lithuania, in 1871. She studied natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern where she received a doctorate in 1894. After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Robert Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases. From 1896 to 1899 she was a lecturer and, subsequently, professor at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There she founded a bacteriological institute. In 1896 she delivered before the International Congress of Women at Berlin a lecture on the study of medicine by women in various countries. In 1898 she married Dr. Walter Kempner of Berlin. From 1903 to 1920 Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner worked with Johannes Orth at the Charité institute of Pathology in Berlin. In 1912 she became the second woman in Prussia employed as a professor, and the first in Berlin. From 1920 to 1930 she headed the bacteriology laboratory of the Moabit hospital in Berlin. In 1933, due to the Nazi race laws, she was forced to resign from all offices. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner died in 1935 in Berlin.
Ownership history This collection was permanently deposited at the Jewish National and University Library in February 1937, by Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner's only son, Robert Kempner (1899-1993).
Language Note All the materials in this collection are in in German.
National Library system number 990038268880205171

תנאי השימוש:

Appropriate Conditions of Use Have Been Established for Every Archive File

The terms of use appear on the archival file page on the National Library website.

For more information about the copyright status inquiry service and terms of use for items from the Library’s collections, click here.

MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

"So wollen denn auch wir in diesem Sinne handeln" : die Bakteriologin Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (1871-1935) / Katharina Graffmann-Weschke.

Katharina Graffmann-Weschke 1967- author

Book
Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner : Bakteriologin, Tuberkuloseforscherin, Berlins erste Professorin / Katharina Graffmann-Weschke, Benjamin Kuntz.

Katharina Graffmann-Weschke 1967- author

Book
רבינוביץ'-קמפנר, לידיה.
רבינוביץ'-קמפנר, לידיה.
Archive

This may also interest you

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

While we all sit, as we do every year, at the Seder table, while we sing, ask questions, read the Haggadah and enjoy the holiday meal, hundreds of families among us will not be able to do this. Their holiday spirit, their joy, their loved ones were taken from them.  Their loved ones were kidna

To the article on our blog
Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

As opposed to the Passover Haggadah, the Jewish Midrash tells us of the significant role played by Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus from Egypt. Every Passover we are told of the Children of Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom, but it often goes unmentioned that Miriam the Prophetess, sister

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject