Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Lilly Hajdu (1891–1960)

Hajdu’s biography is an especially tragic emblem of how politics and psychoanalysis were intertwined in twentieth-century Hungary. She was born in Miskolc, to a lower-middle class, assimilated Jewish family and graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Budapest University in 1914 as one of the first female students. During the 1910s, she was a member of the Galileo Circle (Galilei Kör), an influential, free-thinking students’ society in Budapest. After World War I, she was named the director of the Frim Institute for people with intellectual disabilities; together with her husband, physician Miklós Gimes, she transformed it into an institute for nervous children. She started her analytical practice in the late 1920s, which became a source of professional recognition and a stable livelihood. Her analytic work focused on the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia. Her husband, who was training to be an analyst at the time, was deported and died in the concentration camp of Leitmeritz during World War II. Lilly Hajdu survived the Holocaust by hiding in Budapest.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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