Griselda Hinojosa Explained

Griselda Hinojosa
Birth Name:María Griselda Hinojosa Flores
Birth Date:20 April 1875
Birth Place:Copiapó, Chile
Occupation:Pharmacist
Education:University of Chile

María Griselda Hinojosa Flores (20 April 1875 – 1959) was a Chilean pharmacist. She became the first woman to practice pharmacy in the country after earning a degree from the University of Chile in 1899.

Biography

Griselda Hinojosa was born in Copiapó on 20 April 1875, the fourth daughter of Pablo Hinojosa and Mercedes Flores.[1] She studied at the Rafael Valdés Private School for Girls and at the Copiapó Lyceum for Girls.[2]

She studied pharmacy at the University of Chile, graduating on 4 December 1899 with the thesis Contribución al estudio del Solanum Tomatillo (Natri) (Contribution to the Study of the Solanum Tomatillo).[3] [4] She was part of the first group of women to earn college degrees in Chile, following the promulgation of the in 1877; others included physicians Eloisa Diaz (1886) and Ernestina Pérez (1887) and lawyers Matilde Throup (1892) and Matilde Brandau (1898).[5]

She practiced her profession at the Copiapó Apothecary and Drugstore until 1909, and at the Manuel Antonio Matta Pharmacy, located on the in Santiago, owned by Hinojosa and her husband.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ¡Nuestras primeras profesionales! . Our First Professionals! . University of Chile Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutal Sciences . Spanish . 2012-05-08 . 2020-05-18.
  2. Web site: Griselda Hinojosa . Bicentenarias: Mujeres en la Memoria y en la Historia de Chile . Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestión . Spanish . 2020-05-18.
  3. News: Copiapina fue la primera farmaceutica de Chile . Copiapó Native was Chile's First Woman Pharmacist . Diario Chañarcillo . Spanish . 2009-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185343/http://www.chanarcillo.cl/articulos_ver.php?id=11603 . 2016-03-04 . dead . 2020-05-18.
  4. La Biblioteca del Museo de Medicina Enrique Laval. (Servicio Nacional de Salud) . The Enrique Laval Medical Museum Library (National Health Service) . Mireya . Olivares Cortés . Anales de la Universidad de Chile . . Spanish . 2010-09-08 . 12 . 10.5354/0365-7779.2000.2519 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193116/http://www.revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/ANUC/article/viewArticle/2519/2426#af1 . 2016-03-04. free .
  5. Web site: Primeras mueres universitarias . First University Women . . Biblioteca Nacional de Chile . Spanish . 2020-05-19.

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