Early life and education Bertha Lutz was born on August 2, 1894, in São Paulo, Brazil..
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was an acknowledged scientist, a women's rights activist, a politician, and a diplomat.
Lutz, Bertha Maria Julia (1894–1976)
Bertha Maria Julia Lutz (b. 2 August 1894; d. 16 September, 1976), the principal leader of the Brazilian woman's suffrage movement. Bertha Lutz was born in São Paulo to a Swiss-Brazilian father, Adolfo Lutz, a pioneer in the practice of tropical medicine in Brazil, and an English mother, Amy Fowler, a former volunteer nurse who cared for lepers in Hawaii.
Lutz was educated first in Brazil and then in Europe, receiving her licencié ès sciences from the Sorbonne in 1918. Later, in 1933, she earned a degree from the Faculty of Law in Rio de Janeiro.
Following seven years of study in Europe, Lutz returned to Brazil and helped to initiate a formal woman suffrage movement.
Born in 1894 in São Paulo, Brazil, Bertha was exposed at an early age to science through her naturalist and physician father, Adolpho, who.Unlike many of her contemporaries, she felt that this was the time to organize, rather than just inform and educate, women. In 1920 she founded her own women's rights organization. Two years later, immediately after Lutz's return from the United States, where she had served as