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Dorothea Erxleben

1715 - 1762

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Dorothea Christiane Erxleben (13 November 1715 – 13 June 1762) was a German medical doctor who became the first female doctor of medicine in Germany. Educated by her progressive physician father and rector of her school, she desired to attend medical school and study medicine like her brother. She eventually petitioned Frederick the Great of Prussia to allow her entry into the University of Halle. Despite a Royal permission to attend, Erxleben never entered University. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothea Erxleben is the 335th most popular physician (down from 323rd in 2019), the 2,415th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,467th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 335 out of 726. Before her are Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Thomas Sydenham, Bronisława Dłuska, Carlos Finlay, Aletta Jacobs, and Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet. After her are Fernando J. Corbató, Louis de Jaucourt, Victor Babeș, Richard Wilhelm, Prospero Alpini, and Mary Putnam Jacobi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 9. Before her are Robert-François Damiens, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, and William Watson. After her are Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, and Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. Among people deceased in 1762, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 15. Before her are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Tobias Mayer, and Jean Calas. After her are Françoise-Louise de Warens, Stanisław Poniatowski, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Francesco Manfredini, and Francesco Loredan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 2,416 out of 7,253. Before her are Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Otto Kuntze (1843), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), and Rudolf Rocker (1873). After her are Hannelore Kohl (1933), Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515), Arnold Ruge (1802), Hans Tilkowski (1935), Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), and Edmund Stoiber (1941).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 49. Before her are August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Sigmund Rascher (1909), and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744). After her are Richard Wilhelm (1873), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Karl Genzken (1885), Johann von Staupitz (1465), Claus Schilling (1871), and Gustav Hartlaub (1814).

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