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Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Magda Mathilde Jenny |
Surname: | Staudinger |
Name of birth: | Woit |
Profession: | Biologist, chemist |
Birthday: | 08/12/1902 |
Place of birth: | Uderna, Estonia |
Date of death: | 04/21/1997 |
Place of death: | Freiburg |
Married since: | 1928 |
Married to: | Hermann Staudinger |
Profession husband: | Chemist |
Children: | 2 (from Hermann's first marriage) |
Education: | Final high school examinations (*Abitur*) at the Russian girls’ grammar school in Yeysk; 1921–25 university studies (biology) in Berlin; 1925 doctorate and state examination in Riga |
Career: | Kindergarten teacher; after completing the state examinations, appointed as assistant at the botanical laboratory, University of Riga; 1927–28 visiting scholar at the Biological Institute Helgoland; 1937–44 guest researcher at Hermann Staudinger’s chemical laboratory; from 1945 lecture tours |
Memberships: | 1949 founding member and until 1957 president, Freiburg University Women (Freiburger Akademikerinnen); 1959–68 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Fellowships Committee; 1961 German Federation of University Women (DAB) representative on the German Commission for UNESCO; 1966–80 German delegate to the UNESCO General Conferences; 1968 committee investigating the DAB’s history in the Nazi period |
Biographical literature: | Isolde Tröndle-Weintritt, “Dr. Phil. Magda Staudinger, geb. 1902,” in *“Nun gehen Sie hin und heiraten Sie!”. Die Töchter der Alma Mater im 20. Jahrhundert*, ed. Isolde Tröndle-Weintritt and Petra Herkert (Freiburg: Kore, 1997), 78–94, [*Neue Deutsche Biographie*, "Magda Staudinger"](http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz125623.html) |
Major works: | *Umgestaltungen an Blattgeweben infolge des Wundreizes* (diss.; Langensalza, 1925); *Das wissenschaftliche Werk von Hermann Staudinger*, 7 vols. (Basel: Huethig & Wepf, 1969–70) |