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Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving w…
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science · Dutch physician and feminist (1854–1929) · physician · women's rights activist · peace activist · editor · suffragist · feminist · also Aletta Jacobs, Aletta Gerritsen, Aletta Henriëtte Gerritsen, Jacobs
Born 9 February 1854 · Died 10 August 1929 · Q463478
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Aletta Jacobs, Het Hoogste Streven - Where to Watch
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2022· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,037 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,596 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 5,678 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Standardized Myocardial Segmentation and Nomenclature for Tomographic Imaging of the Heart” in Circulation — cited 5,455 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise — cited 6,211 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide” in The Journal of Pathology — cited 6,446 times.
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1995· 1 entry
As Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven (The Highest Aspiration)
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1954· 1 entry
The University of Kansas bought the Gerritsen Collection, which has volumes dating from the 16th century, but mainly focuses on women of the 19th and early-20th centuries
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1929· 1 entry
Died 1929-08-10.
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1919· 1 entry
And signed by Queen Wilhelmina on 18 September 1919
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1918· 1 entry
Jacobs founded the journal, De opbouw, Democratisch Tijdschrift (The building, Democratic Magazine) in which she wrote several articles between 1918 and 1924
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1917· 1 entry
Dutch women obtained the right to stand in elections, though they could not vote
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1915· 1 entry
On her peace mission with Jane Addams and Alice Hamilton
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1914· 1 entry
Shortly after the start of World War I, Jacobs promoted holding the International Women's Congress in The Hague, given the country's neutrality
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1911· 1 entry
After the IWSA conference in Stockholm, Jacobs and Catt embarked on a 16-month tour to evaluate women's legal and social positions and encourage women to struggle for pertinent improvements
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1910· 1 entry
Traveled to South Africa, invited by activists who called on her organizational services
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1906· 1 entry
Touring with Carrie Chapman Catt through the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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1904· 1 entry
Traveled with her husband to Berlin to attend the Congress of the International Council of Women (ICW) and joined with the suffragists who broke off from the ICW at the conference to form the International Woman Suff
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1903· 4 entries
Jacobs became president of the Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht, holding the post for the next 16 years
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Thereafter devoting her time to women's suffrage, financing her efforts from the sale of her private library
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When the National Bureau for Women's Work published a preliminary draft law to reform working conditions
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When she retired, Jacobs sold her collection of 2,000 books, magazines and pamphlets on women's history to the John Crerar Library in Chicago
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1901· 1 entry
And Gerritsen left the Radical League and joined the founders of the Vrijzinnig Democratische Bond (Free-thinking Democratic League)
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1900· 1 entry
Jacobs published translations of feminist theory, such as Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women and Labor by Olive Schreiner (1910)
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1899· 1 entry
Which discussed economic independence for women, voluntary family planning and regulating prostitution
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1897· 1 entry
Jacobs published De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen (The Woman: Her physique and her internal organs), which was an innovative text describing a woman's anatomy and complete reproductive system, with movable i
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1894· 2 entries
Published a campaign in several newspapers about the health of shop workers and the following year wrote an article on prostitution and sexually transmitted disease for the newspaper Amsterdammer
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Was unable to attend the founding meeting because of surgery following her child's birth
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1892· 1 entry
Helped found the Radical League, the first Dutch political party to admit women
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1888· 1 entry
Gerritsen was involved in the founding of the progressive liberal Electoral Association Amsterdam and was elected to the City Council of Amsterdam
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1886· 1 entry
Jacobs campaigned for retail establishments to provide employees with benches where they could rest when they were not attending to customers
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1885· 1 entry
An amendment to the constitution was proposed by Minister Jan Heemskerk to add the word "man" to the electoral provisions
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1883· 1 entry
As the Parliamentary elections ensued, Jacobs learned from the liberal politician Samuel van Houten that women were not explicitly banned from voting, and she wrote a letter to the mayor and city council of Amsterdam, qu
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1882· 3 entries
Founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements
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Jacobs founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and the first clinic in the world devoted solely to disseminating information on the topic
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Expanded her services to include distribution of contraception information and devices
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1879· 1 entry
With the first doctorate in medicine earned by a woman in the Netherlands
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1878· 1 entry
Began work on her doctoral thesis, Over localisatie van physiologische en pathologische verschijnselen in de groote hersenen (On the Localization of Physiological and Pathological Symptoms in the Cerebrum)
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1869· 1 entry
That a woman had been allowed to take the examination
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-02-09.
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