Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Lidia Stoyanova (1901–1988) was born in the town of Lovetch in the family of the professor in surgery Paraskev Stoyanov and the midwife Nina Leyn. Lidia Stoyanova was one of the pioneers of the education of mentally retarded children in the 1920es in Bulgaria and
Katica Ḱulavkova was born in 1951, in Veles. She is a poet, literary theorist, essayist, anthologist, storyteller, university professor, and academician, writing in Macedonian. Her main research interests are related to the literary theory and hermeneutics, comparative literature, Macedonian and South Slavic literatures, critical theory
She was born in 1926 in Skopje, where she completed primary and secondary education. She went to study in Belgrade (1945), but after the establishment of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje (1946), she returned to Macedonia and enrolled in the study group for Macedonian
Liljana Minova-Ǵurkova was born in 1939 in Prilep. She graduated in 1963 at the Department of Macedonian Language at the Faculty of Philosophy. She began her career at the Institute of Macedonian Language “Krste Misirkov” in Skopje (1963‒1977), in the Department for Modern Language. In
Bitrakova-Grozdanova was born in 1939 in Ohrid, where she finished the high school (1958). She received her higher education at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Department of Archeology (1962), where she also completed her Master’s Degree (1972) and received her PhD (1984) with the
Blaga Eleksova was born in 1922 in Tetovo, and finished high school in Skopje. In 1950 she obtained the high education (Art History) at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje, and in 1958 her PhD at the University of Ljubljana, in the
Leman Ergench was born in Harmanli on 28th of November 1937. She graduated primary school in her native town. In 1955 she graduated with honors from Turkish Pedagogical School ‘Valko Chervenkov’ in Sofia. At the same year after a competition she won a scholarship to
Zeynep Zafer (Zeynep Ibrahimova) was born in 1958 in the village of Kornitsa (Bulgaria). When she was 15 years old she witnessed a bloody violence act caused by the attempts of the the communist regime to assimilate by force the Pomaks (Bulgarian speaking Muslims). During
She was born in 1902 in Skopje. She is the first woman chemist in Turkey. Her studies were interrupted during the hard times of WWI, but she managed to enroll Istanbul University where she started to teach classes such as mathematics and geometry. She enrolled
She was born in 1891. She holds the title of being the first female medical doctor in Turkey. Graduating from American Girls College in 1916, she decided to become a medical doctor. Back then, the Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul did not accept any female