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.
References
- Hans A., Schmitt (1989). Lucky Victim: An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, 1933–1946. Louisiana State Univ Pr (September 1, 1989). ISBN 0807115002.
- Hans A., Schmitt. Quakers and Nazis. Inner Light in Outer Darkness. University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1997.
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