Gisela Januszewska

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Januszewska as a physician in Graz

Gisela Januszewska (also known by surnames Kuhn, Rosenfeld and Roda; 22 January 1867 – 2 March 1943) was an Austrian physician. Having earned her degree in Switzerland, she briefly worked in Germany before becoming the first female physician in the ethnically Serbian town of

Second World War
.

Early life and education

Gisela Januszewska was born on 22 January 1867 in the

University of Zürich. She received a degree in medicine as Gisela Kuhn on 12 April 1898.[1]

Career

Having gained her first experience in the obstetrics volunteering at the Women's Hospital in Zürich, Januszewska moved in June 1898 to

Bosnian town of Banja Luka,[2] becoming its first female physician.[3]

During her career in Banja Luka, Januszewska was one of few physicians who strove to ensure that

typhoid, typhus and syphilis, but most of all osteomalacia (the last being especially rampant among Muslim women, according to Teodora Krajewska, another physician in Bosnia at the time).[1]

Following Januszewski's retirement, the couple moved to

First World War, enrolling at the University of Graz. Widowed in 1916, she volunteered to enter the military medical corps as the only physician available to the Militärkommando.[1]

Januszewska received several medals for her services, including

underprivileged for free, she also financially supported some of them. She was the second Austrian physician to be awarded the title Medizinalrat, an award for outstanding contributions to medicine.[1]

Later life

By the end of 1935, Januszewska had closed her practice but continued her social work. In 1937, her work was rewarded with the

Theresienstadt concentration camp.[1] She died there on 2 March 1943, aged 76.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Januszewska, Gisela (geb. Rosenfeld, verh. Kuhn) 1867–1943". Frauen in Bewegung (in German). Archived from the original on 29 May 2006. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Gisela Kuhn, geb. Rosenfeld-Roda". Ärztinnen im Kaiserreich (in German).
  3. ^ a b "Novi nazivi ulica osvanuli u Banjaluci" (in Serbo-Croatian). 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
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