| Honorific Prefix: | Jonkvrouw |
| Jeltje de Bosch Kemper | |
| Birth Date: | 28 April 1836 |
| Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper (1836 - 1916) was a Dutch feminist.
Bosch Kemper was born in Amsterdam on 28 April 1836.[1] [2] She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of (1808-1876) and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1810-1844) and educated in a girls' school. She became interested in women's issues by The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.
In 1871, she became a member of Betsy Perk's Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Arbeid Adelt, an association with the goal to improve women's right to be educated and work to support themselves; in 1872, she founded her own association with the same purpose, Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Tesselschade, which she chaired 1886-1911. In 1878 she founded Vereeniging voor Ziekenverpleging, the first courses to educate professional nurses in the Netherlands.[1] [3] In 1894, she became chairperson of the Maatschappelijken en den Rechtstoestand der Vrouw in Nederland, and association to improve the legal rights of women, and in 1896-1906 she manage her own women's rights magazine, Belung und Recht; she was also a member of the women suffrage association.[4] Her younger sister Christine de Bosch Kemper was a (less public) women's right activist as well.[5]
She and Anna Reijnvaan founded the Journal for Nursing for the Sick.[6] In 1891, they worked together again to arrange the first conference on nursing, named ‘The Gathering’; however, despite Kemper being the conference president, no women were allowed to deliver speeches at the event.[7]
Bosch Kemper died in Amsterdam on 16 February 1916.[2]