She wrote the first phenomenology of empathy, then died at Auschwitz

Edith Stein studied under Edmund Husserl and in 1917 wrote her doctoral thesis arguing we grasp another person's inner experience through a direct, non-inferential kind of perception, not inference. She later became a Catholic nun, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942 for her Jewish ancestry.

— Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy — Doctoral dissertation, 1917