Bertha #Pappenheim, Austrian-German Jewish #feminist who translated Mary Wollstonecraft& #39;s "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" into German, was born #OnThisDay in 1859
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Pappenheim was also active in the women& #39;s movement of #Frankfurt/Main, her adopted home town. She was the first President of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of #Jewish Women), founded in 1904 after the International German Women& #39;s Conference in Berlin.

Pappenheim is also known for being patient "Anna O." in a case study in the early development of psychoanalysis. In her early 20s, she sought help for #mentalhealth https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> problems, and later went on to become an important and influential women& #39;s rights activists and social campaigner.