Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 – ) was a German biological anthropologist.

Life

Stephanie L. Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

on 10 July 1877. Oppenheim married the Swiss anthropogist Rudolf Martin, becoming his second wife. After his death in 1925, she edited a revised edition (1928) of his textbook of

physical anthropology Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct Hominini, hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly ...

. In 1930 she was a contributor to Walter Scheidt's Rockefeller-funded anthropological study of the German population. Facing Nazi persecution, she was sent to

Theresienstadt Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the Schutzstaffel, SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German occupation of Czechoslovakia, German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstad ...

. According to some sources, she survived Theresienstadt. However, other sources give her year of death as 1940.

Works

* ''Zur Typologie des Primatencraniums''. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1911. * (ed.) ''Lehrbuch der Anthropologie in systematischer Darstellung'' extbook of Physical Anthropology in Systematic Presentationby Rudolf Martin. 1928.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Stefanie 1877 births 1940 deaths Year of death uncertain German anthropologists German women anthropologists