Lūcija Jēruma-Krastiņa

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Lūcija Jēruma-Krastiņa (born Lūcija Krastiņa) was a Latvian anatomist and anthropologist. She was born on 12 November 1899 in Cēsis, Latvia, and died on 23 September 1968 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was one of the first women to earn a doctorate from a Latvian university. She graduated from the University of Latvia’s Faculty of Medicine in 1925. She worked as an assistant to Jēkabs Prīmanis and, from 1925 to 1944, taught in the university’s Department of Anatomy. Her ideas about the Latvians’ race influenced racial classification in Latvia in the 1930s. In 1944 she left Latvia for Germany, and in 1948 moved to Venezuela. In Venezuela she also began painting. She was married to psychiatrist Nicholas Jēruma.