Anastasia Tumanishvili-Tsereteli Born (25 August 1842 – 7 February 1932, Tbilisi)

In 1876 went to Switzerland where she got acquainted with the issues of upbringing children based on Pestalozzi methods, new pedagogical ideas in Switzerland and France. Visited Paris, Zurich. On returning home got involved in cultural-educational life of the country. Soon her literary translations were Continue Reading

Barbare Eristavi-Jorjadze (1833, Kistauri, Georgia – 10 April, 1895)

Literary and public figure, particularly in women’s education and rights field. Her articles were regularly published in periodicals. In 1874 wrote the first book in culinary “The Complete Cuisine”. Author of poetry, prose and drama. Created her own method of teaching literacy.

Elena Usheva (1872-1944)

Born in Bansko. Graduated from a high school in Stara Zagora and the Fine Arts Academy in Brussels (1893). Teacher and principal of the Princess Marie Louise Vocational School – Sofia and a private vocational school. Author of sewing textbooks (First handbook on stitching and Continue Reading

Emerging female participation in the public sphere: first women schools, female high schools, access to university: the presentation of the female teacher in the 19 century (Bulgaria)

The first evidences of Bulgarian female education are from the end of the 18th – early 19th century, when the idea still had no social support. At that time, the girls were trained by nuns in few monasteries. (Anastassia Dimitrova) Only in 1841, in occasion Continue Reading

Ekaterina Karavelova (1860-1947)

Born in Rousse in a poor family. She graduated from a female high school in Moscow. She had been working as a high school teacher in the Rousse, Plovdiv and Sofia female high schools. Translator of French and Russian, writer and journalist. Wife of Petko Continue Reading

Bogdana (Josepha) Iraskova-Hiteva

Born in the Czech lands, she graduated from a pedagogical school in Prague. Married a Bulgarian, became a teacher in female schools in Karlovo, Kalofer, Pazardjik, Vidin, Samokov, Tarnovo, Stara Zagora, Plovdiv, Varna, and Sofia (1867-1903). She was a member of women’s societies, translator and Continue Reading

Adela Xenopol (1861-1939)

Feminist. She studied in France at Sorbonne and Collège de France. She founded the feminist journal Dochia, and run several other feminist journals as Romanca and Viitorul româncelor.

Emilia Puhallo-Lungu (1853-1932)

Romanian journalist and feminist. She founded in 1872, the first feminist association in Banat, in Timisoara, `Reuniunea doamnelor`.

Daria Harjevschi (1862-1934)

Is a director of the Public City Library in Chisinau (the only gubernial library that was sustained by the state) from 1884 until 1917. For training herself went to Harkov, Poltava and Odesa in 1899, during this trip she created the the alphabetically-systematic catalog of Continue Reading