Ana Cimer (Anna Czimmer) je bila novosadska lekarka, naučnica i književnica.
Pre Drugog svetskog rata Ana je u Segedinu radila kao asistentkinja Alberta Sent-Đerđija, dobitnika Nobelove nagrade za medicinu i pronalazača C vitamina. Obljavljivala je naučne radove u stručnim medicinskim časopisima, ali se interesovala i za narodno lečenje i u tu svrhu sprovodila etnološka istraživanja.
U Novi Sad Ana dolazi prvi put 1941. godine, ali je iz njega morala da ode dve godine kasnije. Nakon završetka rata Ana se zahvaljujući diplomatskom urgiranju vraća u Novi Sad u kojem nastavlja svoju lekarsku karijeru i u kojem ostaje do kraja života. Isprva je radila u bolnici na Vencu (Fruška Gora), na odeljenju za tuberkulozu, a nakon toga u Dispanzeru za plućne bolesti (u Majevičkoj ulici), gde je bila i na čelu bakteriološkog odeljenja.
1950. godine Ana se teško razbolela i bila je nepokretna, ali uprkos bolesti nastavila da savesno da obavlja svoj posao, koji ju je vezivao za mikroskop.
Pored toga što je bila izuzetna naučnica, Ana je bila velika ljubiteljka književnosti i čak je pisala književne radove za časopise „Lumina“, „Hid“ i omladinske časopise, u kojima je objavljivala i svoje etnografske tekstove. Ana je od malih nogu govorila više jezika, a na polju književnosti se bavila i prevođenjem. Između ostalog, prevela je i čuvenu knjigu „Mali princ“ Antoana d Sent Egziperija. Odlično je poznavala rumunsku i mađarsku književnost i u svom stanu je imala takozvani književni salon preko kojeg je lično, ali i preko dopisivanja bila u kontaktu sa mnogim mađarskim književnicima.
O bolesnoj Ani, nakon majčine smrti, njena porodica nije htela da brine, te je na sebe to preuzela druga porodica iz Novog Sada. O Aninom privatnom životu se vrlo malo zna. Na njeno insistiranje spaljene su prepiske sa književnicima i sa Sent-Đerđijem. Ovakva povučenost i stroga privatnost je verovatno razlog što u arhivima ne postoji ni njena fotografija.
Anna Czimmer was a doctor, scientist and writer.
Before WWII Anna worked as an assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi, the scientist who discovered Vitamin C and a Nobel Prize winner. Anna was a successful scientist and her work had been published in medical journals. She was also interested in alternative medicine and did ethnography researches connected to it.
Anna first came to Novi Sad in 1941, but had to move out two years later. After the war Anna came back and continued her career in Novi Sad. First she had worked in the tuberculosis department, and after that in Dispensary for pulmonary diseases, where she was the head of the bacteriological department.
In 1950 Anna got ill and she became paralyzed, but in spite of her disease she continued with her work, which implied working with a microscope.
Apart from being an excellent scientist, Anna was a big lover of literature and even wrote for magazines, where she published her ethnographic texts as well. Since very early age Anna spoke several languages, and she was also translating literature. For example, she translated the book “The Little Prince”. She had excellent knowledge of Romanian and Hungarian literature, and she held a so called literary salon in her apartment, thru which she maintained contact with notable Hungarian writers.
After her mother’s death Anna’s family didn’t want to take care of her, and another family from Novi Sad took care of her, since she was ill and paralyzed. Not much is known of Anna’s private life. She insisted that all of her exchanged letters with writers and even Albert Szent-Györgyi be burnt. Maybe this reticence is the reason there is no photograph of Anna in the archives.