# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedwig-jahnow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:22:59.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hedwig-jahnow"
name: "Hedwig Jahnow"
slug: "hedwig-jahnow"
description: "Hedwig Jahnow was a German teacher and an Old Testament theologian who studied Rabbinic Dirge, specifically Kinah. In 1919 After winning an election in the first year that women were allowed to vote she became the first woman in the Marburg city council. She later became deputy headmistress of the Marburg Elisabeth School. Hedwig explored women's role in the Old Testament and contributed a number of works on this topic establishing herself as one of Germany's first female biblical scholars. Jahow's work has been cited by modern theologians as foundational to the modern study of the book of Lamentations."
tagline: "German Old Testament scholar, first woman in the Marburg city council, deputy headmistress of the Marburg Elisabeth School, victim of the holocaust"
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birthDate: "1879-03-21"
deathDate: "1944-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump