Hermine Moquette

Hermine Christine Hélène Moquette (Sluis, 25 April 1869 – Bilthoven, 17 December 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the first female archivists in the Netherlands. She worked more than 30 years at the Rotterdam Municipal Archives and her research on Dutch women was widely published. Years later she studied law, but abandoned that field after earning her bachelor's degree in 1909.

Archivist In 1898, with her doctoral degree in hand, Moquette moved to Rotterdam, where her parents were already living. As was customary for female university graduates, she became a teacher at a girls' school. During this period, she met deputy municipal archivist Mr. W.F. Bezemer and became interested in the archival profession. Not long after, she applied for the position of deputy municipal archivist that resulted from Bezemer's death. When she was rejected, she volunteered her services as an 'unpaid employee' at the Rotterdam Municipal Archives. She started that position in March 1899 and after one year she had worked her way up to temporary civil servant with the rank of deputy archivist. Her work consisted largely of making inventories. In 1904 she completed the inventory of the Holy Ghost Home archive and in 1907 that of the Orphanage archive.

Selected publications She published her research under her full name: Hermine Christine Hélène Moquette. She was widely published in the New Dutch biographical dictionary as well as the magazine Neerlandia, published by the General Dutch Association.

Hermine C. H. Moquette (1898). On the Novels of Wolff and Deken Considered in Connection with the Romantic Creations of Richardson. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. J.M. Droogendijk, HCH Moquette (1910). Rotterdam street names explained historically. WL & J. Brusse, Rotterdam. Hermine CH Moquette (1915). The Woman. Part 1: Domestic Life. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. --- (1915). The woman. Part 2: Social Life. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020.