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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Jeanne |
Surname: | Eder-Schwyzer |
Name of birth: | Schwyzer |
Profession: | Chemist |
Birthday: | 03/02/1894 |
Place of birth: | New York |
Date of death: | 10/24/1957 |
Place of death: | Zurich |
Married since: | 1920 |
Married to: | Robert Eder |
Education: | Childhood in New York City; university studies (chemistry) in Zurich; 1919 doctorate |
Career: | Founding member of the Swiss Institute of Home Economics |
Memberships: | 1935–38 president, Swiss Association of University Women (SVA); 1937–48 president, Zurich branch of the Swiss Federation for Women’s Suffrage (Bund für Frauenstimmrecht); 1949–57 council member, Federation of Swiss Women’s Associations (Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine, BSF); 1949–54 BSF representative on the Swiss UNESCO committee; 1947–57 president, International Council of Women |
Biographical literature: | “Eder-Schwyzer, Jeanne,” *Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz* (http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D9292.php); obituaries in *Neue Zürcher Zeitung*, October 29, 1957, and *Schweizer Frauenblatt* 11 (1957) |
Major works: | *Ueber Acetylacetonatodiaethylendiaminkobaltisalze* (diss.; Zurich: J.J. Meier, 1919) |