Rahel Plaut

Dr Rahel Plaut
Born
Elisabeth Amalie Rahel Plaut

(1894-06-21)June 21, 1894
Leipzig
Died22 December 1993(1993-12-22) (aged 99)
Rochester, Kent, England
Alma materUniversity of Freiburg
OccupationsResearcher & doctor
Known forFirst female academic Hamburg Medical School
SpouseHans Liebeschuetz
ChildrenWolf, Hugo, Elisabeth

Dr Rahel Plaut (1894-1993) was a medical doctor and researcher in physiology who became the first female academic to be appointed at Hamburg University School of Medicine. Between 1919 and 1924 she co-authored 25 scientific papers on subjects including metabolism, muscle physiology and infectious disease. She married the historian Hans Liebeschuetz (German: Liebeschütz) in Hamburg in 1924. They emigrated to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.

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