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- ↑ Ilse Korotin, Nastasja Stupnicki, ed. (2018), Biografien bedeutender österreichischer Wissenschafterinnen (in German), Böhlau Verlag, p. 315, ISBN 9783205202387
- ↑ Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.): biografıA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen. Band 2: I–O. Böhlau, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2, S. 1156.
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