After attending secondary schools in Harderwijk, Arnhem and Amersfoort, Jacob de Hartogh became an apprentice pharmacist in Meppel. In 1879 he registered to study pharmacy in Amsterdam and graduated as an assistant pharmacist in 1881. He then studied medicine and sat for his medical finals in 1886. He attended clinics in Leipzig, Berlin, Munich and Vienna.
Jacob de Hartogh opened a practice at 84 Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam and practised medicine at 79 Minervalaan as well. On 23 July 1895 he took his PhD degree at Freiburg im Breisgau for his PhD thesis on peri and parametritis puerperalis. He published various articles in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, including one about psychosis and internal secretion (1920) and another about treatment of serous pleurisy through self-injections.
Jacob de Hartogh was active in societies as a Bollandist, a member of the Geneeskundige Kring (medical circle) and on the board of the Amsterdamse Genootschap voor Heel- en Verloskunde (Amsterdam society for surgery and obstetrics).
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 98-99
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