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Jacobs, Aletta (1854 - 1929)

Short name Jacobs, Aletta
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/18028895/
First name Aletta Henriette
Birth name Jacobs
Married name
Date of birth 1854
Date of death 1929
Birth date Notes 09-02-1854
Death date Notes 10-08-1929
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Sappemeer
Place of death Baarn
Lived in Netherlands
Place of residence notes
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology Jewish
Education Higher education, School education
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title dr.
Jacobs, Aletta was ...
related to Norrie, Charlotte
related to Gluecklich, Vilma
related to Schwimmer, Rosika
related to Mme Etienne Marcel
related to Huygens, Cornélie Lydie
correspondent , friend and professional colleague Schreiner, Olive
correspondent Mercier, Hélène
friend Haighton, Elise Adelaïde
related to Nort, Betsy
related to Uildriks, Frederike van
related to Tuuk, Titia van der
Profession(s)
Memberships Nationale Vrouwenraad , Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht , Vrijzinnig-Democratische Bond
Place(s) of Residence Netherlands
Circulations of Jacobs, Aletta, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Jacobs, Aletta, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
Een eerste vrouwelijke Medicinae Candidaat in Nederland Chijs, Mienette van der 1874 comments on person

MENTIONED IN:
- De Vries, Een stad vol lezers 2011

Cf.
- Wilde, Inge de: Nieuwe deelgenoten in de wetenschap: vrouwelijke studenten en docenten aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1871-1919. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1998.
- Mineke Bosch, Een onwrikbaar geloof in rechtvaardigheid. Aletta Jacobs 1854-1929. Balans 2005.

Persoonsarchief in het IIAV
Online-portraits in DBNL en BWSA

Lived in:
Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, NLD)
Groningen (Groningen, NLD)

Married to Carel Victor Gerritsen (1892), widowed in 1905. One son, who died one day after birth.

- First female university student in the Netherlands.

1883: brief (ook invloed Gerritsen) aan gemeentebestuur Amsterdam over vrouwenkiesrecht: censuskiesrecht - daaraan voldeed zij.

- Met Olive Schreiner in 1911.

Material in Letterkundig museum, The Hague.

MENTIONED IN:
- Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 150, 246, 259