Career
She was also known for her studies of steroid hormone biochemistry and her prolific output, which included over 200 scientific articles and several textbooks. Her career began at the German University in Prague, where she earned her Doctor of Medicine in 1920 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1923, and was habilitated in 1926.
Langecker then became a professor and served in that role until 1945.
That year, she moved to the Free University of Berlin where she was a professor until 1959 and an emerita professor until her death in 1989.