an advocate for children's health in rural Finland. Death Heikel died on 13 December 1929 in Helsinki, with no surviving family. She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. References Further reading Heikel, 2. Emma Rosina i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1909) Westermarck, Helena: Finlands första kvinnliga läkare Rosina Heikel. Helsinki 1930. 1842 births 1929 deaths 19th-century Finnish physicians Finnish gynaecologists Finnish women's rights activists Finnish women physicians People from Kaskinen Physicians from Helsinki University of Helsinki alumni Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery Finnish midwives Finnish pediatricians 19th-century women physicians 20th-century Finnish physicians 20th-century women physicians