Full Name Selma Stern Books The court Jew Role Historian | Name Selma Stern Occupation Historian | |
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Known for Historical works on the history of German-speaking Jews Died August 17, 1981, Basel, Switzerland | ||
Selma Stern-Täubler (born 24 July 1890, Kippenheim, Germany – died 17 August 1981, Basel) was a German historian.
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Life
Selma Stern grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Baden. She was the first girl to attend the Großherzogliches Badisches Gymnasium in Baden-Baden, from which she graduated in 1909. She studied history at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and she earned her doctorate from the latter in 1913. She was one of the first women to become a professional historian in Germany.
Shortly after the founding of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin in 1919, Stern accepted an invitation to become one of its first research fellows. There, she began work on the first two volumes of her magnum opus Der preussische Staat und die Juden (She was the author of a four-volume German work, The Prussian State and the Jews), a study of Jewry in eighteenth-century Prussia. In 1927, Stern married the director of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, historian Eugen Täubler.
In 1941, Stern and her husband, Eugen Täubler,fled to the United States, first to New York, and later to Cincinnati. From 1947-56, she was in charge of Jewish-American Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.
Last years and death
In 1960, Stern-Täubler moved to Switzerland, where she lived until her death in Basel in 1981, aged 91.