Amalia Assur (June 8, 1803 – 1889) was the first female dentist in Sweden. Amalia Assur was born in Stockholm as the daughter of the Jewish dentist Joel Assur (1753–1837), the Dentist of the Royal Family, who has been referred to as one of the first educated dentists in Sweden, and Esther Moses Heilbuth. Her brother James Assur also became a dentist. Amalia Assur never married, and remained a ''

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''. She was educated in dentistry by her father and active as his assistant early on. As an assistant dentist, her position was an informal one, and Assur was eventually reported to the authorities for

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. In 1852, she was given special dispensation from the Royal Board of Health (''Kongl. Sundhetskollegiet'') to practice independently as a dentist. The permission was a personal dispensation, because the profession of dentistry was formally barred for women, and she was therefore a special exception rather than a pioneer for other women, as the profession was still prohibited for women. She was active in

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. In 1861, the profession of dentistry was formally opened to women. The first woman to have been given permission to practice after the profession of dentistry was open to women was

Rosalie Fougelberg ''Rosalie'' Ingeborg Karolina Fougelberg (29 December 1841 – 8 May 1911) is known as Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to women. She was the daughter of the dentist of the Royal Court of Sweden, and her father's assist ...

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* Österberg, Carin et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare'' Swedish women: predecessors, successors') Lund: Signum 1990. () * Wilhelmina Stålberg: ''Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor''

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* Kjellander Barbro: ''På Amalia Assurs tid. Några anteckningar om och kring den första svenska kvinnliga tandläkaren'' The days of Amalia Assur. Some notes about and in connection to the first female dentist in Sweden'* https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201909/http://magasin.kb.se:8080/searchinterface/page.jsp?issue_id=kb:69387&sequence_number=2&recordNumber=&totalRecordNumber= {{DEFAULTSORT:Assur, Amalia 19th-century Swedish people 1803 births Women dentists Swedish dentists 1889 deaths Swedish Jews Jewish Swedish history 19th-century Jews 19th-century Swedish women 19th-century dentists Physicians from Stockholm

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