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Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius
Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius (14 February 1834 – 25 August 1911) was the first female dentist in Germany. She was born at Sylt, a small island on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein. However, as there were no dental schools in Germany when she wished to attend (dental training in Germany then was through preceptorships) she attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery starting in 1867 and graduating in 1869. She was the first woman to take a full college course in dentistry, as
XV and thus became the first woman in Sweden to officially practice dentistry since the profession had been legally opened to women in Sweden in 1861.
- 1866: Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to graduate from a dental college (Ohio Dental College).
- 1869: Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius, born in Germany, became the first woman to take a full college course in dentistry, as Lucy Hobbs Taylor received credit for her time in dental practice before attending dental college. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College of