Neumann, Edith, 1902-2002

found: Bard College. Memory and history, c2004:t.p. (Dr. Edith Neumann (1902-2002), New York) p. 4 (Dr. Edith Spitzer Neumann; d. New York City, June 29, 2002, at the age of 100; daughter of Dr. Alfred Spitzer, lawyer and art collector, who died in Vienna in 1923; she left part of his art collection to Bard College) p. 7 (she graduated from the University of Vienna with a doctorate in chemistry in 1927; married Frederick Neumann; both born Jews, but converted to Protestantism; they came to New York in 1948, after a decade in Palestine; she became a professional microbiologist, and he a Congregational minister, in Brooklyn)