Jeanne Merkus

Jeanne Merkus (Batavia, 11 October 1839 – Utrecht, 1 February, 1897), was a Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier, and political activist.[1]

Jeanne “Jenny” Merkus

She was an educated deaconess and worked tending the wounded in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

Between 1873 and 1876, she was a member of the Christian rebel guerilla of Mićo Ljubibratić and participated in fighting the Ottoman Empire in Herzegovina, dressed as a male soldier and leading soldiers in battle.[1]

She served by organizing the army medical service on the Serbian side during the Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878).[1]

She was famous in the contemporary international press and referred to as the "Joan of Arc of the Balkans".[1]

References
  1. Wim van den Bosch, René Grémaux, Merkus, Jeanne, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Merkus [12/08/2018]

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