Mensa AG 2018

Dr. Helene Knabe: How a German Orphan Created a Medical Research Legacy and Inspired Murder (Room JW Grand Ballroom 8)

07 Jul 18
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Nicole Kobrowski, Writer

For years, Dr. Knabe went unnoticed in an unmarked grave in Crown Hill Cemetery. When her life was researched beyond the newspaper headlines of her murder, past the tawdry innuendo of the attorneys, grand juries and trial, behind her own words, Dr. Knabe became a significant contributor to medicine, women’s rights, gender, and race equality. This presentation — based on the Nicole Kobrowski novel, She Sleeps Well: The Extraordinary Life and Murder of Dr. Helene Elise Hermine Knabe — illustrates how Dr. Knabe and her scrappy port villager’s early life and gender influenced her lifelong identity, her medical and education career, and her death. Finally, participants will understand her lasting contributions and how relevant her life experiences are today. Dr. Helene Elise Hermine Knabe exemplifies how medicine is not only an application of science but also the art of healing and compassion, perseverance, and courage — and rebranding and survival. For more information, visit unseenpress.com.