Caroline Schultze

[2] Her first cousin was the prominent Polish-German composer, Ignatz Waghalter She gained a baccalaureat in 1884[2] and became a medical student at the University of Paris.

[1] Her thesis defense was controversial, with the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot objecting to the "pretension" of Schultze's argument that medicine could be practiced ably by women as well as by men.

[3] Schultze's thesis was influential, inspiring a wave of dissertations by other French women scholars on women-related topics.

[1] In 1888, Schultze was one of the contributors to La Revue scientifique des femmes, a short-lived journal edited by the feminist activist Céline Renooz.

[4] Schultze later worked as the chief physician for women employees of La Poste, the French postal, telegraph and telephone service.