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{{Short description|Spanish physician}}
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[[File:Elena Maseras.jpg|thumb|Elena Maseras]]
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'''María Elena Maseras Ribera''' (25 May 1853 – 4 December 1905), also known as '''Elena Maseras''', was a Spanish woman who was allowed to enlist as a university student with special dispensation in 1872; having been formally admitted to a class in 1875, she was finally allowed to graduate in 1882, which created a [[precedent]] allowing women to enroll at universities in Spain from that point on.<ref name="Consuelo Flecha 1910">Consuelo Flecha: Las primeras universitarias en España, 1872-1910. Narcea Ediciones, 1996</ref> She studied medicine at the [[University of Barcelona]], but did not sit the last exam to qualify to practice as a physician, and became a teacher instead.<ref name="Rowold2011">{{cite book|author=Katharina Rowold|title=The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBSEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT232|date=9 February 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-62583-3|page=232}}</ref>
'''María Elena Maseras Ribera''' (25 May 1853 – 4 December 1905), also known as '''Elena Maseras''', was a Spanish woman who was allowed to enlist as a university student with special dispensation from [[King Amadeo I]] in 1872; having been formally admitted to a class in 1875, she was finally allowed to graduate in 1882, which created a [[precedent]] allowing women to enroll at universities in Spain from that point on.<ref name="Consuelo Flecha 1910">Consuelo Flecha: Las primeras universitarias en España, 1872-1910. Narcea Ediciones, 1996</ref> She studied medicine at the [[University of Barcelona]], but did not sit the last exam to qualify to practice as a physician, and became a teacher instead.<ref name="Rowold2011">{{cite book|author=Katharina Rowold|title=The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBSEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT232|date=9 February 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-62583-3|page=232}}</ref>


Some gardens in the [[Eixample|Ensanche]] district were named after her.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joan Angel Frigola Berbel |url=http://eldigital.barcelona.cat/en/womens-names-in-barcelonas-street-nomenclature_178723.html |title=Women's names in Barcelona's street nomenclature - El Digital D Barcelona &#124; Barcelona City Council |publisher=Eldigital.barcelona.cat |date=2015-04-17 |access-date=2015-09-07}}</ref>
Some gardens in the [[Eixample|Ensanche]] district were named after her.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joan Angel Frigola Berbel |url=http://eldigital.barcelona.cat/en/womens-names-in-barcelonas-street-nomenclature_178723.html |title=Women's names in Barcelona's street nomenclature - El Digital D Barcelona &#124; Barcelona City Council |publisher=Eldigital.barcelona.cat |date=2015-04-17 |access-date=2015-09-07}}</ref>

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Elena Maseras

María Elena Maseras Ribera (25 May 1853 – 4 December 1905), also known as Elena Maseras, was a Spanish woman who was allowed to enlist as a university student with special dispensation from King Amadeo I in 1872; having been formally admitted to a class in 1875, she was finally allowed to graduate in 1882, which created a precedent allowing women to enroll at universities in Spain from that point on.[1] She studied medicine at the University of Barcelona, but did not sit the last exam to qualify to practice as a physician, and became a teacher instead.[2]

Some gardens in the Ensanche district were named after her.[3]

Further reading

  • Corbella, Jacinto, and Domenech, Edelmira. "A question of priority: Elena Maseras, Dolors Aleu, Martina Castells," in Proceedings of the First International Congress of the History of Catalan Medicine (Montpellier), 1970, vol. I, pp. 139–142.
  • Garcia, Betsabé. Barcelona amb nom de dona, published by Editorial Mediterrània and Barcelona City Council.

References

  1. ^ Consuelo Flecha: Las primeras universitarias en España, 1872-1910. Narcea Ediciones, 1996
  2. ^ Katharina Rowold (9 February 2011). The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-134-62583-3.
  3. ^ Joan Angel Frigola Berbel (2015-04-17). "Women's names in Barcelona's street nomenclature - El Digital D Barcelona | Barcelona City Council". Eldigital.barcelona.cat. Retrieved 2015-09-07.