Stefanie Martin Explained

Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 –) was a German biological anthropologist.

Life

Stephanie L. Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt on 10 July 1877.^[1]

Oppenheim married the Swiss anthropogist Rudolf Martin, becoming his second wife. After his death in 1925, she edited a revised edition (1928) of his textbook of physical anthropology.^[2]

In 1930 she was a contributor to Walter Scheidt's Rockefeller-funded anthropological study of the German population.^[3]

Facing Nazi persecution, she was sent to Theresienstadt. According to some sources, she survived Theresienstadt.^[4] Other sources give her year of death as 1940.^[5]

Works

• Zur Typologie des Primatencraniums. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart, 1911.
• (ed.) Lehrbuch der Anthropologie in systematischer Darstellung [Textbook of Physical Anthropology in Systematic Presentation] by Rudolf Martin. 1928.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stefanie L. Martin-Oppenheim . Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database . 29 August 2022.
2. Amos . Morris-Reich . Anthropology, standardization and measurement: Rudolf Martin and anthropometric photography . The British Journal for the History of Science . 46 . 3 . September 2013 . 487-516 .
3. Book: Schaft, Gretchen E. . From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich . Urbana . University of Illinois Press . 2004 . 52-3.
4. Book: Schaft, Gretchen E. . From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich . Urbana . University of Illinois Press . 2004 . 227.
5. Web site: Martin, Stefanie . Deutsche Biographie . 29 August 2022 .