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Women at University

The First Female Doctors and Pharmacists Graduated from the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár (Cluj) and Budapest

Summary/Abstract: Until the end of the 19th century women were struggling to gain rights for attending University which was a privilege just in a few countries in Europe. In 1895, 31th of December, Wlassics Gyula, the minister of Religious Affairs and Public Education, published a government regulation which allowed women to attend superior education in philological, medical and pharmaceutical sciences and to obtain a degree in these domains. Sarolta Steinberger was the first woman who successfully graduated medical Faculty in 1900 at Budapest, then five years later, in 1905, Erzsébet Légrádi obtained a diploma in pharmacy. Proceeding Budapest, at Kolozsvár the first woman attended in 1897 the Faculty of Mathematics and Nature sciences at Franz Joseph University, later in 1903 Szerafin Thinagl, originary from Nagyszombat (today Trnava - Slovakia) became a pharmacist. She was followed in 1905 by the Transylvanian born Vilma Hints. 110 years ago, in 1907, Gizella Kárpáti was the first woman who became a doctor at Kolozsvár. In our scientific work we will commemorate the women’s effort for their rights and the first female graduates in medicine and pharmacy at Franz Joseph Univesity in Kolozsvár and Budapest.

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