Eleonore Edlauer

Eleonore EDLAUER, born on January 5^th, 1916 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Weidling/Lower Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Aemilian Edlauer (private civil servant, consultant of the Danube-Save-Adriatic Railway Company, 1882-1960) and Charlotte Edlauer, née Bing, lived in Weidling, Lenaugasse 6. She had successfully passed the school-leaving examination (Matura) at the Frauenoberschule in Hollabrunn/Lower Austria on June 7^th, 1933, and enrolled at the Philosophical School in the fall term of 1935/36, studying zoology. She was in the 3^rd year of her studies in the spring term of 1938.

After the Anschluss in 1938, she was persecuted on racial grounds as a so-called "Mischling 1. Grades", but could provisionally - with revocation at any time - continue her studies until the spring term of 1939.
She had registered for the final examinations ("Rigorosen") in zoology on June 22^nd, 1938, and had passed the first viva voce ("Philosophicum") on December 16^th, 1938 (examiners: Tumlirz, Eibl). She had also submitted her dissertation on December 20^th, 1940. Title of her dissertation: "The ontogenetic development of the closure apparatus of clausiliids, studied on Herilla bosniensis" (supervisors: Kühnelt, Weber). The dissertation had been approved on January 13^th, 1941. On April 25^th, 1941, she had also passed the second viva (examiners: Kühnelt, Weber, Knoll) and was able to receive her doctorate on May 26^th, 1941.

Her father was already very interested in zoology, was a correspondent of the Natural History Museum in Vienna (NHM) and an internationally renowned mollusc researcher and malacologist (snails and mussels), who left his extensive private collection to the NHM.
Eleonore Edlauer became a high school professor of natural history and published, among other works, Naturgeschichtliche Beobachtungen in der Umgebung des Bundessportheimes Hintermoos bei Saalfelden (Beiträge zur neuzeitlichen Pädagogik, 1960).

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1933-1939; final examination file & registry ("Rigorosenprotokoll und -akt") PHIL No. 14501, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") PHIL 1931-1941 No 4047, PHIL GZ 743 ex 1939/40; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 376; Oliver E. PAGET, Aemilian Edlauer +, in: Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien vol. 64 (1960), 39-41.

Herbert Posch