Dolors Aleu I Riera
Dolores Aleu Riera (7 April 1857 in Barcelona – 19 February 1913) was a noted Spanish medical doctor. She was the first woman in Spain to be licensed in medicine and the second woman in the country to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree. Early life and education An only child, Aleu learned to read by age 5. She studied at the University of Barcelona, though during 1874-1875 she attended classes at the University of Valencia. She earned her undergraduate degree in July 1874. The following September, she enrolled in the university's medical school. Aleu completed her studies in 1879, but she didn't receive permission to take the licensing exam until nearly three years later, in the spring of 1882. She finally took the exam on 19 June that year. She passed with excellent marks and thus became the first Spanish woman licensed to practice medicine.La Vanguardia, 17 March 2010, pages 24-2Doctores en Medicina letter to the editor from M. Conxa Montagud On 8 October 1882 Aleu became jus ...
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Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo
– Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the
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