Charlotte Jacobs (13 February 1847,

Sappemeer Sappemeer () is a town in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Midden-Groningen to the east of Hoogezand. Sappemeer was a separate municipality until 1949, when it merged with Hoogezand. The village is the Europea ...

- 31 October 1916,

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), was a Dutch feminist and pharmacist. She was the first of her gender in the Netherlands with a degree in pharmacology and also active within the women's movement. She was the sister of

Aletta Jacobs Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (; 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. I ...

. Charlotte Jacobs became the second female university student in the Netherlands when she started her studies in Amsterdam in 1877 and the first female pharmacist in 1879. She was a pharmacist at the Utrecht hospital in 1882–84. In 1887–1912, she managed her own pharmacy in

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in the Dutch East Indies, and was as such the first female pharmacist in the Dutch East Indies. In 1908, she founded the first women's movement "

Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht The Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women's Suffrage) was a women's rights organization active in the Netherlands from 1894 to 1919. It was devoted to women's suffrage. It was the main women's suffrage movement in the Netherland ...

" in the Dutch East Indies. She primarily fought for education opportunities for women in the colony, and not only for the Dutch women. She returned to the Netherlands in 1912, where she was active within woman suffrage and the peace movement.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Charlotte 1847 births 1916 deaths Dutch pharmacists Dutch suffragists People from Hoogezand-Sappemeer 19th-century Dutch East Indies people University of Groningen alumni 20th-century Dutch East Indies people Women pharmacists 20th-century Dutch women