About Fanny Berlin
Lived 1852 – 1896 (aged 43–44). Fanny Berlin was a jurist.
Fanny Berlin (born 8 or 15 November 1852 in Vitebsk, died 1899 in Saint Petersburg) was the first woman who received her doctorate in Europe as a lawyer (Bern, 1878). The Bernese intelligentsia newspaper considered that this legal doctorate examination of a lady was one of the first at the continental universities at all.
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Who was Fanny Berlin?
Russian lawyer
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Fanny Berlin was born in 1852 in Vitebsk.
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Fanny Berlin died in 1896 in Saint Petersburg.
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Fanny Berlin was a jurist.
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