Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr., Dr. med. |
Prename: | Olga |
Surname: | Weiss |
Name of birth: | Horowitz |
Profession: | Physician |
Birthday: | 05/20/1885 |
Place of birth: | Vienna |
Date of death: | 02/07/1979 |
Place of death: | Vienna |
Married since: | 1921 |
Married to: | Dr. Paul Weiss |
Profession husband: | Physician, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp |
Education: | University studies (natural sciences) in Vienna, doctorate; women teachers’ examination for middle schools; later Dr. med. |
Career: | Works as nurse during World War I; later pediatric nurse specializing in orthopedics; from November 1938 trainee, from July 1939 assistant physician at the Rothschild Hospital, Vienna; 1942 deported with her husband to Theresienstadt concentration camp, put to work as camp physician; 1945 returns to Vienna; May–November 1947 “refresher course” in Britain offered by the British Federation of University Women (BFUW); before 1950 two stays in Britain funded by the British Postgraduate Medical Federation; British immigration restrictions prevent her from remaining with her sister in Britain, so returns to work at a hospital in Vienna |
Memberships: | In contact with the British Federation of University Women (BFUW) through her sister, Grete Horowitz, who left Vienna for Britain during the Nazi period and became established as a teacher there |
Biographical literature: | [Schicksale jüdischer Ärzte in Wien, ausgewählte Biografien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften](http://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/NEWS/2011/pdf/biografien_juedische_aerzte.pdf) |
Major works: | *Histologische Beiträge über die Wirkung der Trichloressigsäure, Chromsäure, Milchsäure und Argentum nitricum* (Bern: R. Suter, 1909) |
Links: | [BiografiA](http://www.biografia.at/); [Schicksale jüdischer Ärzte in Wien, ausgewählte Biografien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften](http://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/NEWS/2011/pdf/biografien_juedische_aerzte.pdf) |