Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher | |
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Born | Gertrud Klara Rosalie Fikentscher 23 December 1896 |
Died | 24 March 1985 |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Friedrich Wilhelm University Humboldt University of Berlin |
Known for | First professor of Law in Germany |
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Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher (23 December 1896 – 24 March 1985) became Germany's first female professor of Law in September 1948, and remained the country's only female university law professor - after 1957 an emeritus (retired) law professor - for seventeen years. She taught at the University of Halle. By the time she received and accepted her professorship she was a few months short of her fifty-second birthday, reflecting a somewhat indirect career trajectory, her having grown up in a country where the educational system was not set up to enable women either to study or teach at any university.[1][2][3]