Sofia Okunevska

✶May 12, 1865

†February 24, 1926

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Sofia Okunevska was a Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She was the first woman in Galicia to receive a gymnasium diploma and obtain a university education, and also the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary. She pioneered the use of radiation therapy for combating cancer in Galicia and Austria-Hungary. She organized courses for nursing sisters and midwives, co-sponsored the establishment of the first medical trade union, and compiled a dictionary of Ukrainian medical terminology. In addition to practicing medicine in Lviv, she also worked in Switzerland, Czechia, and in the Austrian camps during World War I.

first woman who graduated university and became a doctor in Austria-Hungary, the first Ukrainian female doctor

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Biography from the article Sofia Okunevska on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.