Dr. Laura Matild Striker Stricker

Laura Polanyi Striker, a historian, was the first woman to get a PhD from the University of Budapest. Laura's work on Captain John Smith's adventures in Hungary added fundamentally to our understanding and appreciation of his reliability as a narrator. Laura's brothers, Karl Polanyi, the sociologist and economist, and Michael Polanyi, the physical chemist and philosopher of science, are also very well known -- Wikipedia entry on her daughter, ceramist Eva Zeisel.

Marriage in 1904 to Sandor Stricker :: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12126-36944-37

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