Aletta Jacobs

Aletta Jacobs, born in 1854, needed authorization from the Dutch Prime Minister in order to study at a university and become the first woman physician in the Netherlands.

Higher Education in Central Europe. 2009

In the following year she and Aletta Jacobs attended the conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in London.

Rosa Manus. 2009

Like many other Jewish women, Aletta Jacobs and Rosa Manus were passionate pacifists.

Modern Netherlands. 2009

Both paths were marked by lifelong friendships within a large network of politically active women, one of whom was Rosika Schwimmer, already a friend of Aletta Jacobs.

Rosa Manus. 2009

In 1908, during the Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), she met Aletta Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt, with both of whom she formed a friendship.

Rosa Manus. 2009

The second chapter, pp. 40 – 84 is devoted to Aletta Jacobs and her sister Charlotte

Aletta Henriette Jacobs. 2009

The best known of them, Aletta Jacobs, became the first female student in the Netherlands, thanks to the progressive Jewish network which had developed at the University of Groningen.

Modern Netherlands. 2009

Though Rosa Manus was one of the leading Dutch feminists before World War II, her memory has since been overshadowed by more famous contemporaries such as Aletta Jacobs.

Rosa Manus. 2009

Feinberg edited Memories, the autobiography of the Dutch physician, feminist, and pacifist Aletta Jacobs, and coedited Poemmaking: Poets in Classrooms, with Ruth Whitman.

Harriet Feinberg. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

Glittering alumni: Aletta Jacobs, the first female student in the Netherlands; Wim Duisenberg, first president of the European Central Bank; Hans Wijers, CEO of the Board of Management of AkzoNobel; Peter Rehwinkel, mayor of Groningen; several members of the Dutch Royal Family and Junkie XL of Elvis-remixing fame!

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