Berta Ottenstein
German dermatologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Berta Ottenstein was a German dermatologist who was the first woman to obtain her habilitation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the first woman in Germany to habilitate in dermatology. Life Ottenstein, the youngest of six children born into a Nuremberg merchant family, studied at the University of Erlangen, where she received her doctorate in chemistry in 1914. After a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem , she moved to the University of Freiburg in 1928, where she received an assistant post. As early as 1930, her superior, hospital director Georg Alexander Rost, expressed his intention to propose her for habilitation in the foreseeable future. The habilitation was approved by the Senate on 3 June 1931 and confirmed by the responsible Ministry in Karlsruhe on 11 June. Three weeks earlier, Ottenstein had already been awarded the degree at the medical faculty, so that she could take up a position as a private lecturer in the winter semester of 1931/32. The title of her habilitation thesis was "Untersuchungen über den Gehalt der Haut und des Blutes an diastatischem Ferment und dessen biochemische Bedeutung bei Hautkrankheiten" .
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