Franziska Rogger04.09.2025In 1909, Anna Tumarkin became the first woman in Europe to be appointed a university professor in her own right. She taught at the University of Bern for decades and garnered international respect as an academic.
Franziska Rogger23.04.2024Born in Russia, Ida Hoff became one of the first women to attend university in Switzerland around 1900. In addition to pursuing a career in medicine, she was a staunch advocate of women’s rights, guided by her feminist conscience and a penchant for irreverence. She found an outlet for the latter at the second Swiss Congress for Women's Interests in 1921, where she wittily subjected Ferdinand Hodler’s painting “The Day” to a fresh new feminist interpretation.
