Käthe Rosenthal
Käthe Rosenthal (1893–1942) was a German botanist. Her major work was on the genus ''Daphniphyllum''. She worked at the Silesian Freidrich-Wilhelms-University in Breslau and at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. At the beginning of September 1942, the Jewish scientist was deported from her place of residence in Berlin to the Riga Ghetto, where she was murdered a few days later. Early life Käthe Emmy Rosenthal was born on 25 June 1893, in the then German city of Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland).Eintrag im Geburtsregister des Standesamtes Breslau vom 30. Juni 1893, Scan des Originals eingesehen auf ancestry.de am 7. März 2021. Her parents were Amalie, née Kaufmann (1858-1911) and Rabbi Ferdinand Rosenthal (1839-1921; Amalie Kaufman was his second wife). Her mother was born in what is now Kojetín in the Czech Republic. Her father was born in what is now Kaposvár in Hungary. He had studied at Leipzig and Berlin universities, and attained a Doctor of Philosophy. He w ...
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