Adelheid Kofler
Austrian physical chemist, mineralogist and ophthalmologist (1889-1985)
Adelheid Kofler née Schaschek (24 June 1889, Haugsdorf – 27 July 1985, Innsbruck) was an Austrian inventor, mineralogist, and ophthalmologist. She was among the early women to receive both Ph.D. and M.D. degrees from the University of Vienna.
Biography
After attending public school in Amstetten, Lower Austria, Adelheid Schaschek she studied from 1903 to 1907 at the municipal girls' lyceum in Brno, Czech Republic. From 1907 to 1911, she studied at the University of Vienna. In 1911, she passed the teaching examination, which qualified her to teach mathematics, natural history, and physics to female students at lyceums. In 1912, she passed a further examination, qualifying her to teach at teacher training institutions and higher schools for girls. She subsequently taught at the girls' lyceum in the Viennese district of Mariahilf.
Under the direction of Friedrich Johann Karl Becke, she completed her doctoral dissertation on mineralogy and received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1913. Beginning in 1917, she studied medicine at the same university, earning her M.D. in 1921 and specializing in ophthalmology.
In 1921, she married the pharmacologist Ludwig Kofler (1891–1951) in Vienna.
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