Marie Spångberg (23 November 1865 – 23 November 1942) was the first female physician in
Norway, after she graduated from the
Royal Frederiks University of
Christiania in 1893.
She studied obstetrics and gynecology in Germany before returning to Oslo and opening a practice. She was appointed by the government to work in the Department of Venereal Diseases.
She was the daughter of a poor watchmaker's widow.
Eventually she married
ophthalmologist
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Søren Holth and had five daughters, but two of them died at age one, and after that she gave up her practice. However, she continued to work in the Healthcare Commission until 1920, when she had to stop for health reasons.
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1865 births
1942 deaths
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian women physicians
19th-century women physicians
19th-century Norwegian physicians
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