Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 – c. 1940) was a German biological anthropologist.
Life
editStephanie 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]
Works
edit- 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.
References
edit- ^ "Stefanie L. Martin-Oppenheim". Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- ^ Morris-Reich, Amos (September 2013). "Anthropology, standardization and measurement: Rudolf Martin and anthropometric photography". The British Journal for the History of Science. 46 (3): 487–516.
- ^ Schaft, Gretchen E. (2004). From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 52–3.
- ^ Schaft, Gretchen E. (2004). From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 227.
- ^ "Martin, Stefanie". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 29 August 2022.