Dillenius, Juliane Antonia (1884-1949)

Born in 1884 into a family of German origin, Juliane Antonia Dillenius was an Argentine anthropologist and the first woman in America to obtain a university doctorate (in physical anthropology) in 1911.She was one of the four women attending the XVII International Congress of Americanists in 1910. Between 1911 and 1913, she conducted research in physical anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology in Munich and at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg. She gained recognition for her contribution to studies on the antiquity of American man. In 1913, she married Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. From then on, she no longer published but collaborated on her husband’s works.

“La ciencia en manos femeninas: biografía de Juliane Dillenius, la primera antropóloga física americana”

Paola Silvia Ramundo, 2019

En el ámbito científico de inicios del siglo XX, predominantemente masculino, la imagen en que unas manos miden un cráneo prehispánico revela una blusa con puntillas de la figura casi invisible de quien fuera la primera mujer que obtuvo un doctorado con un tema de antropología física a nivel (…)

Dillenius, Juliane Antonia (1884-1949)

“La ciencia en manos femeninas: biografía de Juliane Dillenius, la primera antropóloga física americana”

South America - Anthropology of the South American Lowlands

Robert Lehmann-Nitsche (1872-1938)