Portrait of Bertha Pappenheim

Bertha Pappenheim

Austrian feminist

Lived
1859–1936
Country
Germany
Also writes as
P. Berthold

Updated September 2026

About Bertha Pappenheim

Bertha Pappenheim was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social worker pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association. Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented patients because of Sigmund Freud's writings on Breuer's treatment of her.

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