Elisabeth (Lilli) Deichmann-Schaaffhausen (13 May 1811 – 4 July 1888) was a

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aristocrat who became an ophthalmologist and a citizen of Liechtenstein. She was known as a hostess and she managed to study at a university many years before women were allowed to attend.

Life

Deichmann-Schaaffhausen was born in Cologne in 1811. Her father was the German banker and her mother was his second wife Maria Therese Lucie (born de Maes). She was one of the last of their six children. Her mother was active in public life supporting girls' schools and art societies in Cologne. She married a wealthy banker,

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, and in 1853 they moved to a castle near Bonn called . They had eleven children. She owned a number of artworks as a painting of hers by

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and another by

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are known to have been in her collection. Their home was a salon and the guests included the Crown Prince of Prussia and the composers Clara Schumann,

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and Max Bruch. She remarkably became an ophthalmologist. In 1878 she gained the citizenship of Leichtenstein.

Honours

In 1873 she was given the Royal Württemberg Order of Olga and at that time she already had the

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The violinist and musicologist

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dedicated his 1869 book ''The Violin and its Masters'' to "Mrs. Lilla Deichmann née Schaaffhausen ... in grateful homage". There was a biography and image of her published in 1875. Deichmann-Schaaffhausen died in Bonn in 1888.

References

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