ANJA CZERMACK

Anja Czermack (16/5/1705 - 9/1/1770) was a Pharonian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was also an ASO member from a young age and an Ers Orator for 19 years. She was born in Nobel to the wealthy and noble family of Czermacks. Her father Peter Czermack wanted to elevate his family into the British nobility, so he moved to London and married his daughter to Marquis Keer Garten of Norfolk, England. Anja was recognized early on as a child prodigy; she could speak both English and French at five years of age. By her eleventh birthday, she had also learned Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German, and Latin, and was referred to as the "Seven-Tongued Orator". According to Britannica, she is "considered to be the first woman in the Western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics". When Marquis Garten died, she returned to Pharos and became the first woman University professor. She was initiated into the ASO in 1743 and she soon became its Ers Orator. She monitored the council's research work towards society liberazation and she personally started many charitable foundations to help poor, homeless and sick population throughout Pharos, especially after the Great Lisbon Earthquake and the destruction Pharos suffered from the tsunami. In 1762, she founded and became the director of the Opera Trivion, a home for Nobel's elderly, where she lived as the nuns of the institution did. She died poor, as she had spent her entire fortune in philanthropy. In 1996, an asteroid, 16765 Anja Czermack, was named after her.