Person
Berne, Dagmar (1865 - 1900)
- Born
- 1865
New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 22 August 1900
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Dagmar Berne enrolled in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1885, becoming the first woman to enrol in medicine in an Australian university. In the late 1880s she travelled to England where she gained her medical qualifications at London University in 1893. After working in a hospital in Tottenham, England, she returned to Sydney in 1895. Berne was the second woman to register to practice as a doctor with the Medical Board of New South Wales. She set up practice in Macquarie Street, but died of tuberculosis five years later.
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Dagmar Berne, Records, 1894 - 1958, MS 3700; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Articles
- Mackinolty, Judy, 'WISEwomen in the past . . . Dagmar Berne', WISENET Journal, 38 (July) (1995), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/ISSUE38/dagmar.htm. Details
Book Sections
- 'Dr Dagmar Berne' in Victorian Honour Roll of Women (Melbourne: Centenary of Federation Victoria, 2001). Details
Journal Articles
- Moorhead, R., 'Breaking New Ground: the story of Dagmar Berne', Health and History, 10 (2) (2008), 4-20. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4793384. Details
- 'Berne, Dagmar (1865-1900)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-740093. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 28 March 2003, Last modified: 10 October 2006