Gerda Walther (1897–1977)

Linda Lopez Mcalister

Linda McAlister

pp. 189-206

in: Contemporary women philosophers, 1900-today, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

Gerda Walther was born at Nordrach Colony, a tuberculosis sanitorium owned and directed by her father Dr. Otto Walther, in the Black Forest near Offenburg. Otto Walther and his first wife, a British physician named Hope Adams, founded the Colony in 1891 after having been forced out of Frankfurt for their illegal Socialist political activities. They were divorced in 1893 and Otto's second wife was Ragnhild Bajer, who had come to the Colony at age nineteen as a patient. She was the daughter of Danish Nobel Prize winner, pacifist, and feminist Fredrik Bajer and his wife and colleague Mathilde Bajer. Gerda Walther was the only child of this marriage and her mother died in 1902 when she was five years old. Her father then married Ragnhild's sister Sigrun.²

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Walther Gerda