Lizzy van Dorp
Elisabeth Carolina Lizzy van Dorp (born September 5, 1872 in Arnhem , † September 6, 1945 in Banjoe Biro , Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch lawyer , politician and feminist .
Life
Van Dorp studied law at Leiden University and was the first woman to graduate in the Netherlands in 1901. In 1903 she received her doctorate and she subsequently worked as a lawyer. Van Dorp became active in various feminist movements and advocated the introduction of women's suffrage . She rejected the more radical currents of feminism.
Since 1915 she worked on the editorial team of De Economist , one of the leading Dutch business magazines. A constitutional amendment in 1917 introduced the right to vote for women in the Netherlands. Active suffrage followed in 1919. From 1922 to 1925, van Dorp was a member of the Liberal Party in the Second Chamber of the States General . Then she supported the Liberal State Party .
Van Dorp moved to England after her mother's death in 1935. There she wrote her book A Simple Theory of Capital, Wages, Profit and Loss, a New and Social Approach to the Problem of Economic Distribution (A simple theory of capital, of wages, of profit and loss, a new and social approach to the problem of economic distribution). After the outbreak of World War II, she traveled to Ankara, Turkey. Van Dorp did not return to the occupied Netherlands, but at the end of 1940 traveled to Semarang on the island of Java , where her father had worked. For some time she worked as a lecturer in economics at the Technical University of Bandung. In 1941 she was interned by the Japanese. She died in a detention center in Banjoe Biro the day after her 73rd birthday.
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| SURNAME | Dorp, Lizzy van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dorp, Elisabeth Carolina van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch lawyer, women's rights activist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arnhem |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1945 |
| Place of death | Banyubiru |