Petronella van Heerden

Miss Petronella van Heerden MD MRCS LRCP
Born	1887
Died	1975
Residence	87 Marchmont WC [A63] African Life Buildings, St George's Street, Cape Town [1925] c/o National Provincial Bank Ltd., Ebury Street, SW1 [1931] Papenboom, Newlands Avenue, Cape Province, S. Africa [1933] Box 187, Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa [1949]
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1924.03.18 societies Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Surgeons

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House Notes

1924.02.19 proposed by A. Keith, seconded by C.G. Seligman

Notes From Elsewhere

Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975), was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor. [1] Her thesis, which she obtained a doctorate on in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans.[2] She practiced as a gynecologist, retiring in 1942.[2] She also served in the South African medical corps during World War II.[3]

She campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s, and worked as a farmer after retiring from her medical work.[4] She also published two autobiographical texts, Kerssnuitsels (Candle Snuffings) and Die sestiende koppie (the Sixteenth Cup).[1]

Publications

External Publications

Kerssnuitsels (Candle Snuffings)

Die sestiende koppie (the Sixteenth Cup).