Marie Rennotte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie Rennotte

Belgian-Brazilian teacher and physician

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1852

Place of Birth: Wandre, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 21-Nov-1942

Profession: teacher, physician, pedagogue, activist

Nationality: Belgium, Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Marie Rennotte

  • Marie Rennotte (11 February 1852 – 21 November 1942) was a native Belgian and naturalized Brazilian teacher and physician, who was active in the fight for women's rights.
  • After earning her teaching credentials in Belgium and France, Rennotte taught for three years in Germany before moving to Brazil as a governess.
  • Giving private lessons and teaching at a girls' school, she lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1878 to 1882.
  • Hired to teach in the State of São Paulo, she moved to Piracicaba where from 1882 to 1889 she taught science, developed the curriculum, and enhanced the reputation of the Colégio Piracicabano.
  • The school was an innovative institution which promoted girls' education as equal to that of boys, offering co-educational instruction. In 1889, Rennotte, on a scholarship provided by the state, enrolled in medical school at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
  • That year, she was granted citizenship when a legal change allowed all foreigners permanently living in Brazil to become naturalized.
  • Graduating in 1892, she studied at the Paris Hôtel-Dieu Hospital between 1893 and 1895, completing a specialization in obstetrics and gynaecology.
  • Upon her return to Brazil, she defended her thesis to a jury from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Rio de Janeiro, validating her degree and allowing her to practice medicine in the country.
  • From 1895 to 1899, Rennotte directed the obstetrics and maternity unit of the Maternity Hospital of São Paulo.
  • She also saw patients both in the hospital and in private homes, assisting with births.
  • Opening her own practice after she resigned from the Maternity Hospital, she operated a dispensary for the poor and immigrant communities, while continuing to see patients. In 1901, she was admitted as a member of the São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute.
  • She conducted research at the surgery of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia on the effects of chloroform as an anesthetic from 1906 to 1910 and then traveled to Europe to study how to establish a Red Cross Branch in São Paulo.
  • Upon her return she founded the local branch in 1912, opened a nurses training school, and began a campaign to found the first children's hospital in São Paulo.
  • She continued to practice medicine through the mid-1920s, but increasingly in the 1920s and 1930s became more involved in the international feminist movement and scientific conferences.
  • In 1922, she founded the Aliança Paulista pelo Sufrágio Feminino (Paulistan Alliance for Women's Suffrage).
  • By the late 1930s, suffering from ill health, blindness and deafness, she was granted a state pension, which she collected until her death in 1942.
  • She is remembered for her work to improve women's educational opportunities, and women's rights to better employment, health and citizenship.
  • She is also recognized as one of those who defined feminist thought in Brazil during the 19th century.

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