German 102 year old doctor received a doctorate and was deprived of Nazi 78 years ago.
origin: Phoenix information 2015-06-10 124th
Ingeborg Rapoport, at the end of the age of 102, received a doctor's degree certificate
102 years old German woman Ingeborg Rapoport (Ingeborg Rapoport) on Tuesday (June 9th), awarded a PhD from University of Hamburg in Germany, and became the oldest PhD in the world.
Ingeborg Rapoport (once named Ingeborg Silm Ingeborg Syllm) completed a doctorate in medicine at University of Hamburg in 1937 and wrote a doctoral thesis on diphtheria, but it was not able to take part in the defence because of the Nazi persecution.
her mother is a Jew.
University of Hamburg later wrote to her to confirm that "if it was not the law at that time to prevent her from participating in a doctoral thesis because of the origin of Ms. Silm," she should have received her doctorate.
now, University of Hamburg has corrected this mistake.
last month, three professors at the University of Hamburg medical school went to East Berlin to test her work in the pre war Germany in the living room of englbo.
they were satisfied with the work of Ying Ge Ge and decided to award her doctorate.
a special ceremony was held on Tuesday at the University of Hamburg medical center, which ended with the Nazi deprivation of his doctorate about 80 years ago.
"for principles"
, she said, she did not participate in thesis defense for personal purposes, but for principles.
she also said that it was not easy to participate in thesis defense at the age of 102, but she did so for the victims of Nazi persecution.
Ying Ge Bo's life has been rough. Besides being subjected to Nazi persecution, it was also persecuted by American Mccarthy doctrine in 1950s.
after she fled Germany to the United States in 1938, she finally got the doctor's qualification.
but she and the Jewish husbands she met in the United States suddenly discovered that, because of their left-wing ideas, they were in the opposite of the authorities in the atmosphere of Mccarthy's opposition to communism.
they fled again, and this time they came to communist East Berlin. Ingrid became a pediatrician and eventually became a famous professor of Pediatrics in East Germany.
she was awarded the East Germany National Medal for her contribution to reducing infant mortality. (source: BBC Chinese network)