Griselda Hinojosa

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 1889.

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

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 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 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. "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). University of Chile. 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.
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