Kremer, Jan

Abstract

Wildervank is a small city in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands. Kremer spent his youth in a rural area of the province of Groningen. He studied medicine at the University of Groningen from 1945 to 1952 and tropical medicine at the University of Leiden. He worked in the centre of Java (Indonesia) for a Dutch Protestant Mission as a general hospital doctor from 1953 to 1959. His interest in fertility problems began during this period, mainly due to the demands of many childless women to be treated for their infertility. From 1959 to 1960 he worked for a British-Dutch Oil Company as a general practitioner. After his repatriation 1961, he became a resident at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospital of Groningen, and he was a member of the gynaecological staff in this Hospital from 1965 to 1969.