Anna Petronella van Heerden
(1887-1975)
1887-1975 First Afrikaner woman to qualify as a doctor in South Africa
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Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975), was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor. Her thesis, for which she obtained a doctorate in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans. She practiced as a gynecologist, retiring in 1942. She also served in the South African medical corps during World War II.
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26 April 1887 Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa
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| Died |
1975 (aged 87) Cape Town
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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