Anna Boyksen
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 | August 15, 1920 (aged 39) |
| Other names | Anna Helene Koch |
| Known for | First female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich |
Anna Helene Koch (née Boyksen; 11 August 1881 – 15 August 1920) was the first female engineering student at the Technical University of Munich.[1]
Life
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 (TUM) and obtained the Vordiplom two years later.[3][4]
In 1909 Boyksen married Wilhelm Koch and had a daughter. Her husband was a lawyer and studying at the University of Erlangen, and she moved there with her family and began studying economics and law. 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]
Anna Boyksen died in 1920, aged only 39.[6]
Legacy
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?".[7]
The Anna Boyksen Fellowship[8] 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
- ^ "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.
- ^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann: . Hrsg.: Technische Universität München Corporate Communications Center. 2010 (ina-rosenthal.de [PDF])
- ^ "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.