Else Jerusalem

Born in Vienna as Else Kotányi, she became an Austrian writer and feminist thinker at a time when women were largely shut out of formal academic life. Sources agree that she attended the University of Vienna as a guest student rather than as a fully enrolled student, and that this early intellectual life shaped both her public speaking and her writing.

She is most often remembered for her 1909 novel Der heilige Skarabäus (The Holy Scarab), a bestseller based on her research into prostitution in Vienna. Rather than treating the subject as mere scandal, she approached it as a social reality, which made her work stand out in the literary and political debates of her era.

Later in life she emigrated to Buenos Aires. Some sources list her death there in January 1943, while the name-and-dates you provided use 1942, so the exact year is not fully consistent across the sources I found.