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Place of Birth: Helsingborg, SkĂĄne County, Sweden
About Charlotte Yhlen
- Charlotte Yhlen (later Olsen, 1839–1920), was the first female Swedish physician. Charlotte Yhlen was the daughter of a shoemaker in Helsingborg.
- Her only education in Sweden was primary education.
- In Sweden, it was not yet permitted for females to study at universities when she emigrated to the United States in 1868.
- In America, however, she studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she graduated as a physician in 1873.
- She thereby became the first Swedish woman to graduate as a physician from a university, though Karolina Widerström was the first woman to so in Sweden. She returned to Sweden, where she applied to practice medicine, but her foreign degree was not accepted there.
- However, the universities was opened to women in Sweden in 1870, and she was accepted as a student at the Uppsala University, but she never started to study there.
- The same year, she was elected the first female delegate at the Nordic Science Conference in Copenhagen. Charlotte Yhlen returned to the United States, where she worked as a physician at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and then with her own practice.
- In 1874, she married the Norwegian engineer Tinius Olsen.
- She retired in 1889.
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