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Charlotte Führer (1834 – November 5, 1907) [1] was a German author and midwife/"doctress".

She was born in Hanover, Germany in 1834 as Johanne Louise Charlotte Heise, to Evangelical Lutheran parents; [2] her father was a general in the Hanoverian Army.

At the age of 17, she married Ferdinand Adolph Fuhrer, who she refers to by the pseudonym "Gustav Schroeder" in her book. [2] Shortly afterwards, she and Ferdinand moved to New York City, in the United States. [3] They had two daughters there, named Otillia and Maria. [2] Ferdinand started a business selling imported German goods there, but the business failed, and in 1856 they moved back to Germany. [2] [3]

There, she enrolled in Hamburg University and became a midwife. [3] During this time she had a third daughter, Louisa. [2] In 1851, her father died. [2] After she graduated, on April 17, 1859, [2] she and her husband sailed to Montreal, where she practiced as a midwife for 30 years. [3] Shortly after their arrival, she had a fourth daughter, Elizabeth. [2] She went on to have another daughter, Laura, in 1860, and a son, Friedrich, in 1866. [2] In the summer of 1873, Ottilia and Maria both died of typhus. [2] During this time in Montreal, she wrote Mysteries of Montreal: Memoirs of a Midwife, a recollection of her experiences as a midwife in Montreal, published in 1881. [3] In 1884 her son Friedrich also died of typhus. [2] Charlotte herself succumbed to cancer on November 5, 1907. [1] [2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Führer, Charlotte (1834–1907)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Führer, Cahrlotte; W. Peter Ward (1984). The Mysteries of Montreal: Memoirs of a Midwife. UBC Press. pp. 1–3. ISBN  9780774843355. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e Roland, Charles G. (June 1967). "Mysterious Montrealer: Charlotte Führer". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 96 (24). Canadian Medical Association: 1589–1591. PMC  1922996. PMID  5338172.

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