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Dorothea Erxleben

1715 - 1762

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Dorothea Christiane Erxleben (13 November 1715 – 13 June 1762) was a German 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 81,952 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dorothea Erxleben is the 309th most popular physician (up from 378th in 2019), the 2,370th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,823rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 309 out of 502. Before her are Charles Best, Aletta Jacobs, Leopold Auenbrugger, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Randy Schekman, and George Huntington. After her are Antoine Louis, Johann Conrad Dippel, Mondino de Luzzi, Thomas Szasz, Ernest Duchesne, and William Bates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 10. Before her are Robert-François Damiens, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and William Watson. After her are Charles, Prince of Soubise, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, and François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis. Among people deceased in 1762, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 16. Before her are Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, and Stanisław Poniatowski. After her are Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Francesco Loredan, Francesco Manfredini, George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, and Jan Frederik Gronovius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 2,370 out of 6,142. Before her are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Günter Wallraff (1942), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), and Franz Abt (1819). After her are Walther Meissner (1882), Guido Buchwald (1961), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Gottfried von Cramm (1909), and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Dorothea Erxleben ranks 47. Before her are Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Eduard Wirths (1909), Claus Schilling (1871), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780). After her are Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), Justinus Kerner (1786), Ewald Hering (1834), Michael Maier (1568), and Johann Peter Frank (1745).

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