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Stefanie Martin

German biological anthropologist. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 – c.1940) 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. According to some sources, she survived Theresienstadt.[4] Other sources give her year of death as 1940.[5]

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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.

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