Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler was an Austrian physicist and science teacher. In 1903, she became the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the University of Vienna. She established the first Wiener Handelsakademie für Mädchen, as well as a grammar school for girls, in 1907.

The University of Vienna is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the modern German-speaking world and among the largest institutions of higher learning in Europe. The university is associated with 16 Nobel Prize winners and has been the home to many scholars of historical and academic importance.