Anna Honzáková Anna Honzáková (16 November 1875 in

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– 13 October 1940 in

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) was the first female doctor to graduate from the

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, which she did on 17 March 1902. She was also the third

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woman to earn a doctor's certificate, although the first two,

Bohuslava Kecková Bohuslava Kecková (18 March 1854 – 17 October 1911) was a Bohemian physician, the first woman to earn a medical degree in what is now the Czech Republic. After completing her education at the Girl's High School of Prague, she received special p ...

(graduated 1880 from the

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) and

Anna Bayerová Anna Bayerová (4 November 1853 – 24 January 1924) was the second Czech female medical doctor, after Bohuslava Kecková. Both of them were prevented from practicing as doctors in their own country so Kecková became a Czech midwife, whereas ...

(graduated 1881 from the

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), had done so at Swiss universities rather than Czech ones, and had had to practice abroad as their doctorates were not recognized by their homeland. Honzáková was at first allowed only to go to lectures, not examinations, at medical school, but this changed after five years, when she was allowed to take exams for all she had been studying. After graduation she worked for Charles Maydl, the founder of Czech surgery and anaesthesiology, as an unpaid trainee, but had to leave when he died, and could not get a medical post in the civil hospital. Therefore, Honzáková worked in an open private gynecological surgery in the street of Moráni in Prague for thirty-five years, until her death. She was also the school doctor for Minerva Grammar School. She wrote a biography of

, as well as a publication on how to protect children from

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with Klementina Hanušová. She also created a fund to support sick and poor women. A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the house in Moráni where she practiced; however, it wrongly lists the date of her graduation as 18 March rather than 17 March.

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