Stefanie Martin


Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim was a German biological anthropologist.

Life

Stephanie L. Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt 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 of his textbook of physical anthropology.
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. According to some sources, she survived Theresienstadt. Other sources give her year of death as 1940.

Works

Zur Typologie des Primatencraniums. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1911.Lehrbuch der Anthropologie in systematischer Darstellung by Rudolf Martin. 1928.