Jeanne C. van Lanschot Hubrecht
/Overview
Jeanne Carolina van Lanschot Hubrecht born Breda, Netherlands June 18, 1865 (d. 1918). International pioneer in mental health nursing. Helped organize International Women's Peace Conference, The Hague, 1914. Editor of first women’s peace newsletter Internationaal, 1916. Advocated an end to war as an alternative to war nursing.
Quotations
“Would it not be better to just stop?” (Leo von Bergen, “'Would it not be better to just stop?' Dutch medical aid in World War I and the medical anti-war movement in the interwar years”, First World War Studies, October 2011, pp. 176-7; photo J.W. Wenzel)