15 Dec 2016 Commentary

Since the beginning of the Syrian refugee crisis, hundreds of minors have reached Germany’s borders, many of them young girls. Their families often married them before the perilous journey as some sort of safety. No matter the intentions behind...

Rosa Luxemburg

During WWI, Germany was having complex political problems on its home front. We don’t often hear much about German women during the war, but Rosa Luxemburg (5th March 1871 – 15th January 1919) was a heroine, standing up and dying for her political views in...

STEM Girls: Emmy Noether

It was Emmy Noether’s intent to teach French and English, but instead she chose to audit math classes at the University of Erlangen in Germany (where her father was a mathematics professor). She earned her Ph.D in 1907, and spent the next seven years teaching at...

STEM Girls: Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Kovalevskaya made a variety of original contributions to the field of mathematics. She was the first important Russian female mathematician, the first woman to receive a full professorship in Northern Europe, and one of the first women to be an editor at a...

STEM Girls: Johanna Mestorf

Born in 1828 in Germany, Johanna Mestorf taught herself to become an archaeologist. After serving as a governess in Sweden at the age of 21‚ where she studied Scandinavian languages, she spent several years as a traveling companion, going to Italy and France on...

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