Serena Bangerter-Buser
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Serena Bangerter-Buser ( 14 December 1871 Sissach – 16 March 1957 Biel ) was a Swiss physician.
After her parents separated, she emigrated to New York with her mother and sister in 1881. Her mother supported the family by working at home, and Serena helped her after school. When her mother fell ill, she looked after the family and attended night school at the same time. After her mother's death in 1884, the sisters returned to their father in Sissach, where Serena Buser continued her education. In 1889 she passed the federal Matura and then obtained a secondary school teaching certificate .[1]
Buser began studying medicine at the University of Basel in 1897, becoming only the fourth woman to do so, and completed her studies in 1901. After receiving her doctorate in 1902 ( Contribution to the case studies of child psychoses ), she worked as the first assistant doctor at the Friedmatt Cantonal Hospital and Nursing Home. As the gynecologists at the Basel Women's Hospital refused to train women, she moved to the Dresden Women's Clinic. She then worked at the Liestal Cantonal Hospital and as an independent doctor in Bern. In 1905, she married Arnold Bangerter, a surgeon and gynecologist from Biel, and assisted in his practice. Bangerter-Buser also took care of the upbringing of their sons, Jakob and Alfred Bangerter, who both became doctors.[2]
During the First World War , she ran the practice independently during her husband's military service. When the Spanish flu hit Biel in 1918, Bangerter-Buser was commissioned to set up an emergency hospital and take over its management. After these missions, she left the medical affairs to her husband again. She was also involved in charitable work;, she and her husband founded the Bangerter-Buser Foundation to promote medical treatment and help for the visually impaired and blind .[2]
Serena Bangerter-Buser died in 1957 in her home on Spitalstrasse in Biel.[3]
Further reading
[edit]- Frau Dr. med. Bangerter-Buser, Serena: 1871-1957 (in German). Tschudy. 1957. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bieler Tagblatt 18. März 1957 — e-newspaperarchives.ch". www.e-newspaperarchives.ch (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-16.
- ^ a b "Serena Bangerter-Buser – Personenlexikon BL". personenlexikon.bl.ch. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
- ^ "Der Bund 19. März 1957 Ausgabe 02 — e-newspaperarchives.ch". www.e-newspaperarchives.ch (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-16.