About Elisabeth Schmitt
Lived 1891 – 1974 (aged 82–83). Elisabeth Schmitt was a jurist.
Elisabeth Schmitt (October 28, 1891 in Frankfurt – 1974 in Chicago) was a German-American lawyer and one of the first women in Germany to become a PhD in law. Elisabeth Schmitt was in her mid-forties when she arrived in the United States where she did not open her own academic career though receiving an offer from a Quaker College in Iowa, she refused and became a secretary at the German Department of the University of Chicago. In addition, she was able to hold courses on philological methods and start a career as a translator.
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Who was Elisabeth Schmitt?
German-American lawyer
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Elisabeth Schmitt was born on 28 October 1891 in Frankfurt.
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Elisabeth Schmitt died in 1974 in Chicago.
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Elisabeth Schmitt was a jurist.
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