Maria Linden

Maria Linden was a German bacteriologist and zoologist. Linden had to struggle to gain a university place, a degree and a doctorate because of her gender. In name only, she became one of Germanys first professors. She patented a type of bandage and won a prize for her investigations of butterfly wings. She was driven from office as a result of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Linden was born to a German aristocratic family who resided at Schloss Burgberg160 near Heidenheim, Kingdom of Wrttemberg, in 1869. Her parents Edward and Eugenie von Linden arranged for her to attend a school in Karlsruhe for four years where she received a ladys education. She showed ability and enthusiasm for maths and physics. On her return to the familys castle she had her first paper on the mineral deposits in the River Hrbe read at Karlsruhes geological society in 1890. The paper was noticed by geologist Professor von Quenstedt of Tbingen University.

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