Physician and philanthropist, born Sofie A. Nordhoff in Bielefeld, Germany. As a young woman, she came to the United States to attend the Columbian University (now George Washington University Medical School), graduating in 1893. She did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, then continued her studies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris as well as the Universities of Berlin and Munich.
For more than thirty years, she practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Washington D.C.; among her patients were well-known women such as Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She was eventually invited to join the Georgetown University medical faculty -- the first woman to attain this honor. She was noted for her conservative attitude toward surgery in gynecological disorders, advocating surgery only when the case demanded it, and also for her matter-of-fact attitude toward birth control, then still in its infancy.
Sofie was a personal friend of Mabel T. Boardman of the Executive Committee of the American Red Cross. As a result of this affiliation, during World War I, Sofie and her husband Franz established the Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz [American Red Cross] hospital in Munich. There they treated wounded soldiers from all armies with the help of American expatriate volunteers and German noblewomen.
She created the Dr. Sophie A. Nordhoff-Jung Cancer Research Prize, which granted $500 per year for cancer research.
On July 23, 1904, she married Dr. Franz A.R. Jung at the home of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. She had met him during her medical studies in Germany. Jung, who also practiced medicine in Washington, was not only a prominent surgeon but a respected authority on archaeology and botany. He spoke German, English, Russia, and French fluently.
She was often known professionally in the U.S. as Dr. Sophie Nordhoff-Jung, but preferred the "Sofie" spelling.
She was the sister of Helena N. Gargan and Paula E. Nordhoff.
For more than thirty years, she practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Washington D.C.; among her patients were well-known women such as Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She was eventually invited to join the Georgetown University medical faculty -- the first woman to attain this honor. She was noted for her conservative attitude toward surgery in gynecological disorders, advocating surgery only when the case demanded it, and also for her matter-of-fact attitude toward birth control, then still in its infancy.
Sofie was a personal friend of Mabel T. Boardman of the Executive Committee of the American Red Cross. As a result of this affiliation, during World War I, Sofie and her husband Franz established the Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz [American Red Cross] hospital in Munich. There they treated wounded soldiers from all armies with the help of American expatriate volunteers and German noblewomen.
She created the Dr. Sophie A. Nordhoff-Jung Cancer Research Prize, which granted $500 per year for cancer research.
On July 23, 1904, she married Dr. Franz A.R. Jung at the home of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. She had met him during her medical studies in Germany. Jung, who also practiced medicine in Washington, was not only a prominent surgeon but a respected authority on archaeology and botany. He spoke German, English, Russia, and French fluently.
She was often known professionally in the U.S. as Dr. Sophie Nordhoff-Jung, but preferred the "Sofie" spelling.
She was the sister of Helena N. Gargan and Paula E. Nordhoff.
Physician and philanthropist, born Sofie A. Nordhoff in Bielefeld, Germany. As a young woman, she came to the United States to attend the Columbian University (now George Washington University Medical School), graduating in 1893. She did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, then continued her studies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris as well as the Universities of Berlin and Munich.
For more than thirty years, she practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Washington D.C.; among her patients were well-known women such as Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She was eventually invited to join the Georgetown University medical faculty -- the first woman to attain this honor. She was noted for her conservative attitude toward surgery in gynecological disorders, advocating surgery only when the case demanded it, and also for her matter-of-fact attitude toward birth control, then still in its infancy.
Sofie was a personal friend of Mabel T. Boardman of the Executive Committee of the American Red Cross. As a result of this affiliation, during World War I, Sofie and her husband Franz established the Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz [American Red Cross] hospital in Munich. There they treated wounded soldiers from all armies with the help of American expatriate volunteers and German noblewomen.
She created the Dr. Sophie A. Nordhoff-Jung Cancer Research Prize, which granted $500 per year for cancer research.
On July 23, 1904, she married Dr. Franz A.R. Jung at the home of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. She had met him during her medical studies in Germany. Jung, who also practiced medicine in Washington, was not only a prominent surgeon but a respected authority on archaeology and botany. He spoke German, English, Russia, and French fluently.
She was often known professionally in the U.S. as Dr. Sophie Nordhoff-Jung, but preferred the "Sofie" spelling.
She was the sister of Helena N. Gargan and Paula E. Nordhoff.
For more than thirty years, she practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Washington D.C.; among her patients were well-known women such as Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She was eventually invited to join the Georgetown University medical faculty -- the first woman to attain this honor. She was noted for her conservative attitude toward surgery in gynecological disorders, advocating surgery only when the case demanded it, and also for her matter-of-fact attitude toward birth control, then still in its infancy.
Sofie was a personal friend of Mabel T. Boardman of the Executive Committee of the American Red Cross. As a result of this affiliation, during World War I, Sofie and her husband Franz established the Amerikanisches Rotes Kreuz [American Red Cross] hospital in Munich. There they treated wounded soldiers from all armies with the help of American expatriate volunteers and German noblewomen.
She created the Dr. Sophie A. Nordhoff-Jung Cancer Research Prize, which granted $500 per year for cancer research.
On July 23, 1904, she married Dr. Franz A.R. Jung at the home of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. She had met him during her medical studies in Germany. Jung, who also practiced medicine in Washington, was not only a prominent surgeon but a respected authority on archaeology and botany. He spoke German, English, Russia, and French fluently.
She was often known professionally in the U.S. as Dr. Sophie Nordhoff-Jung, but preferred the "Sofie" spelling.
She was the sister of Helena N. Gargan and Paula E. Nordhoff.
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