Gerda lerner biography of donald

          Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women's history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars..

          Like Charles Homer Haskins, Gerda Lerner has devoted her life to historical scholarship and public service.

        1. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna in , Lerner was strongly influenced by her mother, Ilona, who advocated sexual liberation.
        2. Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women's history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars.
        3. Gerda Lerner, pioneer in women's history, remarkable public intellectual, and life-long activist, died this week in Wisconsin at the age of
        4. GERDA LERNER (b.

          5. Gerda Lerner

          Austrian-American scholar

          Gerda Lerner

          Gerda Kronstein in 1981.

          Born

          Gerda Hedwig Kronstein


          (1920-04-30)April 30, 1920

          Vienna, Austria

          DiedJanuary 2, 2013(2013-01-02) (aged 92)

          Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

          EducationNew School (BA)
          Columbia University (MA, PhD)
          Spouses

          Bobby Jensen

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          (m. 1939; div. 1940)​

          Carl Lerner

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          (m. 1941; died 1973)​
          Children2

          Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author.

          In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where sh