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Aletta Jacobs

1854 - 1929

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Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈlɛtaː ɦɑ̃ːriˈɛtə ˈjaːkɔps]; 9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aletta Jacobs has received more than 435,252 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Aletta Jacobs is the 304th most popular physician (down from 302nd in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 325th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Dutch Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Aletta Jacobs ranks 304 out of 502. Before her are Andrew Taylor Still, Leonid Kulik, Joseph Škoda, Realdo Colombo, Helen B. Taussig, and Charles Best. After her are Leopold Auenbrugger, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Randy Schekman, George Huntington, Dorothea Erxleben, and Antoine Louis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Aletta Jacobs ranks 45. Before her are Takahashi Korekiyo, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Hertha Ayrton, Jean-Marie Guyau, Thomas R. Marshall, and John Kemp Starley. After her are Sergei Shchukin, Jacek Malczewski, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Sergei Korsakoff, Stefan Stambolov, and Victor Babeș. Among people deceased in 1929, Aletta Jacobs ranks 49. Before her are Princess Olga Paley, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Gotō Shinpei, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Mahidol Adulyadej, and Sergei Nilus. After her are Segundo de Chomón, Herman Potočnik, Jacek Malczewski, Adolf Meyer, P. J. Kennedy, and André Messager.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Aletta Jacobs ranks 339 out of 1,427. Before her are Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911), Anton Corbijn (1955), Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563), Philippa of Guelders (1464), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), and William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1613). After her are Floris I, Count of Holland (1025), Aad de Mos (1947), James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), Barent Fabritius (1624), Hans van Breukelen (1956), and Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (1968).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Aletta Jacobs ranks 10. Before her are Regnier de Graaf (1641), Johann Weyer (1515), Nicolaes Tulp (1593), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Frederik Ruysch (1638), and Franciscus Donders (1818). After her are Titus Brandsma (1881), Petrus Camper (1722), Herman Snellen (1834), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Willem Johan Kolff (1911), and Joep Lange (1954).

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