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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Gertrud |
Surname: | Meissner |
Profession: | Physician, bacteriologist |
Birthday: | 04/16/1895 |
Place of birth: | Wollin |
Date of death: | 01/20/1985 |
Place of death: | Bad Oldesloe |
Education: | High school for girls, 1915 final examinations (*Abitur*) in Stettin (Szczecin); university studies (medicine) in Berlin, Jena, and Greifswald; 1920 university degree; 1922 doctorate |
Career: | 1922–26 research associate at the Institute of Hygiene in Greifswald; 1926–45 research in medical chemistry at the University of Breslau (Wroclaw); 1948–60 research associate at the Borstel Tuberculosis Institute near Hamburg |
Memberships: | 1926–33 German Association of Women University Lecturers (Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen Deutschlands) and German Federation of University Women (DAB), active in the Berlin chapter |
Biographical literature: | Ilse Gudden, “Gertrud Meissner,” in *Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 1995*, ed. Peter Mast and Silke Spieler (Bonn: Kulturstiftung der Vertriebenen, 1994), 104–5 |
Major works: | "Beitrag zur Frage der Blasenmole im praeklimakterischen Alter," Ph.D. diss., Greifswald University, 1922; *Bakterizide und entwicklungshemmende Wirkung des Blutes auf Tuberkelbazillen* (Jena: Fischer, 1928); *Mykobakterien und mykobakterielle Krankheiten* (9 vols., Jena: Fischer, 1975–80) |