Hendrina Commelin

The only daughter of Johannes Commelin and Catharina Cornelia Ouwersloot, she married Casper Willem Reinhard Scholten (1839-1914) in Amsterdam on 15 March 1866.

After a few years, Jule Jeltje came to live near the Vondelpark as a backdoor neighbor of Hendrina Scholten.

Hendrina belonged in 1888 with Helene Mercier, Aletta Jacobs and Jeltje de Bosch Kemper to the committee for workers' labor rights.

Together with her husband, she founded the Amsterdam Phytopathological Laboratory, the association Huisverzorging, the Women's Reading Museum, and the people's baths.

The board of the association consisted of three members of the Women's Union Groningen (Cato Pekelharing-Doijer, Dientje Dull and Cateau Worp-Roland Holst), Cécile Goekoop-de Jong and Marie Jungius.