Stefanie Martin
German biological anthropologist
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Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 – 24 September 1954) was a German biological anthropologist.
Life
Stephanie L. Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt on 10 July 1877.[1]
Oppenheim married the Swiss anthropogist Rudolf Martin, becoming his second wife. After his death in 1925, she edited a revised edition (1928) of his textbook of physical anthropology.[2]
In 1930 she was a contributor to Walter Scheidt's Rockefeller-funded anthropological study of the German population.[3]
Facing Nazi persecution, she was sent to Theresienstadt. Some sources wrongfully give her year of death as 1940.[4] She certainly survived Theresienstadt and later moved back to Germany where she died in Lautrach on 24 September 1954.[5]
Works
- Zur Typologie des Primatencraniums. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1911.
- (ed.) Lehrbuch der Anthropologie in systematischer Darstellung [Textbook of Physical Anthropology in Systematic Presentation] by Rudolf Martin. 1928.