Anna Helene Koch (née Boyksen; 11 August 1881 – 1920) was the first female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich.[1]
Anna Helene Boyksen | |
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 Anna Boyksen in a laboratory at TH München | |
| Born | August 11, 1881 Havendorfersand, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, German Empire |
| Died | 1920 (aged 39) |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Anna Helene Koch |
| Known for | First female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich |
Life edit
Anna Boyksen was born on 11 August 1881 in Havendorfersand, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, to Dietrich Anton Boyksen, a merchant, and his wife Mathilde, née Lubben. In her curriculum vitae, Boyksen claimed her nationality as Bavarian and religion as evangelical.[2]
In 1906, she enrolled in the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich and obtained the Vordiplom two years later.[3][4] She then studied economics and law at the University of Erlangen. In 1911, she defended her dissertation, titled Die deutschen Börsenordnungen. Eine vergleichende Darstellung (The German Stock Exchange Regulations. A Comparative Representation), under her married name Anna Helene Koch.[5]
Legacy edit
The Anna Boyksen Diversity Research Center at TUM "explores human diversity and the opportunities of diversity for society. Its work focuses on a question often overlooked in Germany: How can the natural, engineering and life sciences benefit from a more diverse community culture?"[6]
The Anna Boyksen Fellowship[7] has been offered by the TUM Institute for Advanced Study since 2014. The Fellowship is granted to outstanding international scholars and researchers who wish to probe gender / diversity-related problems in the Natural and Engineering Sciences, in collaboration with TUM researchers. The two-year Fellowship was created to help advance TUM's goal to become "Germany's most attractive university for women" and to foster a productive and durable exchange of ideas and solutions on an international level.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Diversity at TUM: Focus Gender and Family" (PDF). www.chancengleichheit.tum.de.
- ^ "The Internet Archive. Lebenslauf". Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ^ Personalstand der Königlich Bayerischen Technischen Hochschule zu München im Winter-Semester 1906/1907 (PDF). München: Akademische Buchdruckerei von F. Straub. 1906. p. 103.
- ^ a b "Women in the Technical University of Munich" (PDF). Technical University of Munich. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ^ Koch, Anna Helene (1911). Die deutschen Börsenordnungen. Eine vergleichende Darstellung. Erlangen: K. B. Hof- und Universitätsbuchdruckerei von Junge & Sohn.
- ^ "TUM Press Release. Institutional Strategy, Graduate School and Research Clusters: TUM retains its title of University of Excellence". June 15, 2012. Retrieved Nov 16, 2016.
- ^ "TUM-IAS: Anna Boyksen Fellowship". Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2016.