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Marie Spångberg Holth

Marie Spångberg Holth

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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.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

Portrait of Holth by Asta Nørregaard, 1913

She was the daughter of a poor watchmaker's widow.[3] Eventually she married ophthalmologist Søren Holth and had five daughters, but two of them died at age one, and after that she gave up her practice.[5] However, she continued to work in the Healthcare Commission until 1920, when she had to stop for health reasons.[6]

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    "Lege mot alle odds" (in Norwegian Bokmål). forskning.no. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
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    Schiøtz, A (2015-04-20). "[To study medicine--a threat to women's health?]". Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. 123 (24): 3522–3. PMID 14691489.
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    Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia. p. 188.
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