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Aletta Jacobs

1854 - 1929

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Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈlɛtaː ɦɑ̃ːriˈjɛtə 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 447,187 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Aletta Jacobs is the 232nd most popular physician (up from 304th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 338th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Physician.

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  • 58.25

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

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  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Aletta Jacobs ranks 232 out of 726. Before her are Patch Adams, Regnier de Graaf, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Leander of Seville, Tasuku Honjo, and Johann Weyer. After her are Alessandro Achillini, James Lind, John Hunter, Vladimir Dal, Hieronymus Fabricius, and Norman Bethune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Aletta Jacobs ranks 27. Before her are Georg Kerschensteiner, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Yan Fu, Salomon August Andrée, Alfredo Catalani, and Hubert Lyautey. After her are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Takahashi Korekiyo, Otto Sverdrup, Charles Algernon Parsons, Alphonse Allais, and Zhang Xun. Among people deceased in 1929, Aletta Jacobs ranks 41. Before her are Tanaka Giichi, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Oldfield Thomas, La Goulue, Rainis, and Maurice Sarrail. After her are Manuel Gomes da Costa, Enrico Ferri, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Mahidol Adulyadej, Jacek Malczewski, and Herman Potočnik.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Aletta Jacobs ranks 254 out of 1,646. Before her are Jozef Israëls (1824), Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577), Saskia Sassen (1947), Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (1627), Jan Peter Balkenende (1956), and Johann Weyer (1515). After her are C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817), Willem Blaeu (1571), Maarten Tromp (1598), Willem van Hanegem (1944), Carel Struycken (1948), and Otto van Veen (1556).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Aletta Jacobs ranks 7. Before her are Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Peter Canisius (1521), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Nicolaes Tulp (1593), Regnier de Graaf (1641), and Johann Weyer (1515). After her are Frederik Ruysch (1638), Franciscus Donders (1818), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Titus Brandsma (1881), Petrus Camper (1722), and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873).

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