Interesting: "being female in Germany at a time when most German universities didn’t accept female students or hire female professors"
I'm currently reading "The Poincare Conjecture", which suggested that Erlangen and Gottingen were very open to women, but reading the Wikipedia article it's clear that the quote is correct and the book (or my memory of it) is incorrect; she was one of only 2 women in a class of 986 at Erlangen, and she was actively blocked entrance to Gottingen. It sounds like if it wasn't for Gordan, Klein and Hilbert she might not have been allowed to attend at all.
Yes, even Lise Meitner, who discovered Nuclear Fission, faced similarly difficult circumstances, and never got the recognition that she deserved (her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize but she wasn't)
I'm currently reading "The Poincare Conjecture", which suggested that Erlangen and Gottingen were very open to women, but reading the Wikipedia article it's clear that the quote is correct and the book (or my memory of it) is incorrect; she was one of only 2 women in a class of 986 at Erlangen, and she was actively blocked entrance to Gottingen. It sounds like if it wasn't for Gordan, Klein and Hilbert she might not have been allowed to attend at all.