Hope bridges adams lehmann biography books

German physician (1855–1916)

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann
Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann
Born	(1855-12-16)16 December 1855 London
Died	10 October 1916(1916-10-10) (aged 60) Munich
Scientific career
Fields	gynecology

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann (16 December 1855 – 10 October 1916) was the first female general practitioner and gynecologist in Munich, Germany.

She was the daughter of the English journalist and railway engineer William Bridges Adams. She studied at Bedford College, London University, and then at the University of Leipzig before joining the medical register in Dublin in 1881.

She married fellow doctor Otto Walther in 1882. They ran a medical practice together in Frankfurt am Main until 1886. They had two children.

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was one of the first women who studied medicine in Germany – despite the fact that every imaginable obstacle was put in her way.

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was one of the first women who studied medicine in Germany – despite the fact that every imaginable obstacle was put in her way.

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Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was a visionary social reformer who was almost forgotten until the publication of her biography by Marita Krauss ().

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Hope Bridges Adams was the first woman to qualify in medicine in Germany and the first female general practitioner and gynaecologist in Munich.

After she contracted tuberculosis, the couple opened a sanatorium, the Nordrach Clinic, in the Black Forest. They ran the clinic together until 1893, and they were divorced in 1895. She m