Marianne Beth
Marianne Beth (March 6, 1889, Vienna – August 19, 1984, New York City) was a Jewish Austrian lawyer and feminist.[1] In 1921, she was the first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in law.[2]
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(Photographer: Isidor Harkányi, 1922)
Life
She was born Marianne Weisl into a bourgeois Viennese family. Her father, Ernst Franz von Weisl, was a jurist. Her brother was the Orientalist and Zionist leader Wolfgang von Weisl. In 1906, she married the Berlin theologian Karl Beth and converted from Judaism to Protestantism.[3]
In 1908, she wished to study law herself, but entry into the law faculty in Vienna was not permitted to women at that time. So she first studied Orientalism, earning her doctorate on the subject of Oriental Languages.[2] In 1919 the rules were changed, permitting her to enroll in Law. In 1921, she became the first woman doctor of law on the juridical faculty in Vienna as a lecturer. From 1928 she was active as a lawyer in practice.[2]
She wrote frequently on women's issues and was author of a legal handbook, "The right of women", 1931. She was the co-founder of the "Austrian women's organization."[3]
When Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938 (Anschluss), her name was removed from the registry of attorneys and Beth and her husband emigrated to the United States.[2] From 1939 to 1942, she taught sociology at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon.[4]
Notes
- ^ "Dr. jur. et phil. Marianne Beth". Sophie. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d Albisetti, James C., "Portia Ante Portas: Women and the Legal Profession in Europe, ca. 1870-1925," Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer, 2000), pp. 825-857
- ^ a b Knowledgebase Adult Education
- ^ Belzen, Jacob A., "A Political End to a Pioneering Career: Marianne Beth and the Psychology of Religion," Religions 2011, 2, pp.247-263.
See also
References
- Marianne Beth at the Brooklyn Museum Dinner Party database of notable women. Accessed March 2009
- Österreichische Soziologinnen und Soziologen im Exil 1933 bis 1945 In German Accessed March 2009
- Marianne Beth entry at the Knowledgebase Adult Education The online knowledge platform for topics relevant to the theory and practice of adult education in Austria. Accessed March 2009 Original German
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