Agathe Streicher or Agatha Streicher (* 1520; "† 1581) were one too her time supraregional well-known lady doctor in the realm city Ulm.

Agathe Streicher was an only established lady doctor in the realm-urban Ulm. Although it could not visit a university as a woman, it possessed per find a medical knowledge (possibly acquired over her brother Hans, who was also a physician). 1561 carried it out the physician oath on the Ulmer order. Their sound sequence were well-known the far over borders of the city. Numerous high-standing personalities, for instance the princess von Hohenzollern or the bishop von Speyer, traveled after Ulm, in order to let be treated from it. As the highest vocational acknowledgment it was appointed 1576 to the patient bed of emperor Maximilian II. to Regensburg, where it traveled on particularly a raft equipped by the Ulmer advice Danube downward. Although it could not heal the emperor any longer, it was it nevertheless possible, its suffering too lindern, and it was to have remained up to its death at its dying bed.

Agathe Streicher was successful also as a and an important Kreditgeberin for the city Ulm, dedicated themselves however to tasks also karitativen. Because of their religious conviction as a follower it in addition, meeting with hostility were exposed to the Schwenckfeld teachings (a

Literature

• Schulz, I.: Blew traces - women in the urban history. Ulm, South German publishing house company, 1998.

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