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A BIOGRAPHY
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university professor had to be overcome. No other
university had set the example. The funds might
possibly have been found to furnish a
life-appoint-ment, but the considerations urged against such an
appointment appearing to be insurmountable,
Professor Leffler decided to postpone the attempt till a more
convenient season. At the end of the first five years he
succeeded in obtaining for Sönya a life-appointment,
which she enjoyed just one year.
On July 1, 1884, Mittag Leffler had the pleasure of
telegraphing to Sönya, who was then in Berlin, that
she had been appointed professor for five years. She
answered the same day in the following terms:
Berlin, July 1, 1884.
... I need hardly tell you that your and Ugglases’
telegrams have filled my heart with joy. I may now confess that
up to the last moment I believed and feared that the matter
could not be carried through. I thought that at the critical
moment some unexpected difficulty would arise, and that all our
plans would come to nothing. I am also sure that it is only
owing to your perseverance and energy that we have been able
to attain our end. I now wish that I may now have the strength
and capacity requisite for my duties, and to help you in all your
undertakings. I firmly believe in my future, and shall be glad
to work with you. What joy and happiness it is that we
met! . . .
Further on she says:
W-has spoken to several officials here about my wish to
attend lectures. It is possible that the thing may be arranged,
but not this summer, as the present Rector is a decided
opponent of woman’s rights. I hope, however, it may be arranged
by December, when I return to spend my Christmas holidays .
here.
The University of Stockholm had already appointed
Fru Kovalévsky professor, while in Germany it was
still impossible for her, as a woman, to attend even
lectures,
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