Marie Daiber

Marie Daiber (24 August 1868 – 6 July 1928) was a German-born Swiss zoologist. In 1913 she was the first woman to obtain a teaching certification at the Philosophical Faculty II of the University of Zurich. After earning her PhD she became a professor at that same university.

Biography Marie Daiber was born in Esslingen (Württemberg) She began university language studies in Oxford, England, before enrolling in science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1899. In 1904, Marie Daiber received her doctorate under the Swiss naturalist Arnold Lang and eventually became a naturalized Swiss citizen. In the same year she took up an assistant position at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich. She also worked at the bibliographic resource for researchers called the Concilium Bibliographicum. She was promoted to prosector of the Zoological Institute in 1909 and she held that position until her death.

Marie Daiber died at 59 on 6 July 1928 in Genoa, Italy, after a long illness.

Selected works Daiber, Marie. Contributions to the knowledge of the ovaries of Bacillus rossii FaBR. together with some biological remarks. 1904. Daiber, Marie, and assistant at the zoological-comparative anatomical laboratory. On the question of the origin and regenerative capacity of the spleen. Jen. Zeitschr. für Naturwiss (1907). Jordan, Hermann, Marie Daiber, Johannis Strohl, Leo Zürcher, and Herbert Haviland Field. Bibliographia physiologica: (adhuc diario" Zentralblatt für physiologie: adnexa). Vol. 8. sumptibus Concilii bibliographici, 1913. Daiber, Marie. Arachnoidea. G. Fischer, 1913. Daiber, Marie. The abdominal rib system of Sphenodon Hatteria punctatus Gray. G. Fischer, 1920.