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Dorothea Erxleben

1715 - 1762

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Dorothea Christiane Erxleben (13 November 1715 – 13 June 1762) was a German medical doctor who became the first female doctor of medicine in Germany. Educated by her progressive physician father and rector of her school, she desired to attend medical school and study medicine like her brother. She eventually petitioned Frederick the Great of Prussia to allow her entry into the University of Halle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea Erxleben has received more than 86,761 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Dorothea Erxleben is the 323rd most popular physician (down from 309th in 2019), the 2,467th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,367th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 323 out of 726. Before her are Friedrich von Berchtold, Lorna Wing, Friedrich Hoffmann, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, and William Cullen. After her are Howard Florey, James Curtis Hepburn, Willi Graf, Clarke Abel, Carlos Finlay, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 10. Before her are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Robert-François Damiens, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau. After her are Ewald Christian von Kleist, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, William Watson, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, and François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis. Among people deceased in 1762, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 17. Before her are Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, Françoise-Louise de Warens, and Teimuraz II of Kakheti. After her are Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Stanisław Poniatowski, Francesco Manfredini, Francesco Loredan, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and George Anson, 1st Baron Anson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 2,467 out of 7,253. Before her are Franz von Sickingen (1481), Christiane Vulpius (1765), Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700), Volker Finke (1948), Fritz Klingenberg (1912), and Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1842). After her are Adolf Meyer (1881), Ernst-Günther Baade (1897), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Albert of Saxony (1316), Friedrich Pollock (1894), and Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (1898).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 50. Before her are Eduard Wirths (1909), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), and Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875). After her are Willi Graf (1918), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Peter Frank (1745), Ewald Hering (1834), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), and Justinus Kerner (1786).

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