• ^ While Aletta Jacobs is recognized as the first "official female physician", in the 1620s and 1630s, Trijn Jacobs, who was a member of the surgeons' guild of...
  • Aletta Jacobs. A woman who has changed the look of the Netherlands. Her name still has a familiar sound. That is right.
  • Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was born on 9 February 1854 in the small village of Sappemeer, into a Jewish doctor’s family.
  • Aletta Jacobs was born on February 9, 1854, in Sappemeer, the Netherlands, as the eighth of twelve children – six boys and six girls.
  • On the same date, in Holland, an International Congress of Women, to be held in Amsterdam, was called by Dr. Aletta Jacobs, a famous Dutch suffragist.
  • In 1869, for the first time, a girl had taken the admission examination to become a pharmacist's assistant; Aletta Jacobs did the same in 1870.
  • The Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health enables sustainable, affordable and inclusive Public Health – nationally and globally.
  • Aletta Jacobs became the first female doctor in the Netherlands in 1878 and eventually opened the world’s first birth control clinic.
  • The text roughly translates to: “In this house has lived and worked Doctor Aletta H Jacobs, she was the first woman who obtained the doctor title at a Dutch...
  • Aletta Jacobs was the first woman to attend a university and receive a medical degree in the Netherlands.