Griselda Hinojosa

Griselda Hinojosa
Griselda Hinojosa in 1899
Born
María Griselda Hinojosa Flores

(1875-04-20)20 April 1875
Copiapó, Chile
Died1959 (aged 83–84)
EducationUniversity of Chile
OccupationPharmacist

María Griselda Hinojosa Flores (20 April 1875 – 1959) was a Chilean pharmacist. She became the first woman to practice pharmacy in the country after earning a degree from the University of Chile in 1899.

Biography

Griselda Hinojosa was born in Copiapó on 20 April 1875, the fourth daughter of Pablo Hinojosa and Mercedes Flores.[1] She studied at the Rafael Valdés Private School for Girls and at the Copiapó Lyceum for Girls.[2]

She studied pharmacy at the University of Chile, graduating on 4 December 1899 with the thesis Contribución al estudio del Solanum Tomatillo (Natri) (Contribution to the Study of the Solanum Tomatillo).[3][4] She was part of the first group of women to earn college degrees in Chile, following the promulgation of the Decreto Amunátegui [es] in 1877; others included physicians Eloisa Diaz (1886) and Ernestina Pérez (1887) and lawyers Matilde Throup (1892) and Matilde Brandau (1898).[5]

She practiced her profession at the Copiapó Apothecary and Drugstore until 1909, and at the Manuel Antonio Matta Pharmacy, located on the homonymous avenue [es] in Santiago, owned by Hinojosa and her husband.[2]

References

  1. ^ "¡Nuestras primeras profesionales!" [Our First Professionals!] (in Spanish). University of Chile Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutal Sciences. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Griselda Hinojosa". Bicentenarias: Mujeres en la Memoria y en la Historia de Chile (in Spanish). Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestión. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Copiapina fue la primera farmaceutica de Chile" [Copiapó Native was Chile's First Woman Pharmacist]. Diario Chañarcillo (in Spanish). 14 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ Olivares Cortés, Mireya (8 September 2010). "La Biblioteca del Museo de Medicina Enrique Laval. (Servicio Nacional de Salud)" [The Enrique Laval Medical Museum Library (National Health Service)]. Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish) (12). University of Chile. doi:10.5354/0365-7779.2000.2519. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Primeras mueres universitarias" [First University Women]. Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

Further reading

  • Álvarez V., Raúl; Flores, Enriqueta (2006). Griselda...la olvidada (in Spanish). Arthus Ediciones.