About Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen
Lived 1811 – 1888 (aged 77). Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was a German and Liechtensteiner ophthalmologist.
Elisabeth (Lilli) Deichmann-Schaaffhausen (13 May 1811 – 4 July 1888) was a German aristocrat who became an ophthalmologist and a citizen of Liechtenstein. She was known as a hostess and she managed to study at a university many years before women were allowed to attend.
Life Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was born in Cologne in 1811. Her father was the German banker and her mother was his second wife Maria Therese Lucie (born de Maes).
She married a wealthy banker, Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann, and in 1853 they moved to a castle near Bonn called . They had eleven children.
Their home was a salon and the guests included the Crown Prince of Prussia and the composers Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch.
The violinist and musicologist Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski dedicated his 1869 book The Violin and its Masters to "Mrs. Lilla Deichmann née Schaaffhausen ... in grateful homage".
There was a biography and image of her published in 1875. Deichmann-Schaaffhausen died in Bonn in 1888.
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ophthalmologist
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Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was born on 13 May 1811 in Cologne.
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Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen died on 4 July 1888 in Bonn.
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Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was an ophthalmologist.
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Lilli Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was German and Liechtensteiner.
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