Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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The Bulgarian Association of University Women was founded in 1924. The members were women from several generations, who associated feminism with various concepts – predominantly liberal. Since 1925 the BAUW became a member of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW). It was headed by
Scientist, microbiologist-bacteriologist. Graduated in Medicine at the Bern University. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Bacteriology and Serology at the Faculty of Medicine at the Sofia University (1923-1950). Associate Professor and Professor at the Medical Academy in Sofia. Studied bacterial flora of yogurt and etiology
Scientist, zoologist. Graduated in Natural History at the Sofia University (1921). Specialized at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1924), the Fermentation Institute in Berlin (1925-1926), the Zoological Institute at the Greifswalde University (1926), in Berlin (1940, 1958), the Würzburg University (1942-1947). Doctor of Natural Sciences
Born in Stara Zagora. Graduated at Nancy with scholarship (1899). Private practice in Stara Zagora. School doctor at the Female Pedagogic School in Stara Zagora and the First Female School in Sofia. Specialized Pediatric and Internal Deceases in Paris (1911) and Internal Deceases and School
Born in Lovetch. Began her studies in Grenoble and graduated in Biology at the Sofia University (1916). Defended a doctorate in Zoology at the Institute for Higher Agricultural Studies in the Sorbonne (1925). There Lechtova worked as an Assistant Professor (1925-1932), discovered a new species
Kara-Michailova in Vienna Institute for Radium Research, 1920-s Born in Vienna from Bulgarian father and English mother. Graduated in Physics and Mathematics at the Vienna University with a doctorate (1922). She had been working as an Assistant at the Vienna Institute for Radium Research. In
Born in Sofia from Bulgarian father and German mother. Graduated in Chemistry at the Sofia University (1916). In 1918, with the intercession of her father Prof. Pentcho Raykov, was appointed as his Assistant Professor in Chemistry – as the first female assistant at the Sofia
Born in Sofia. Daughter of the prominent feminist Elena Radeva. Graduated in pedagogy and philosophy at the Women’s Higher Pedagogical School in Sevre (1929). She had been working as a teacher in French. With her husband, the writer Emil Koralov, founded and edited the children’s
Translated from French, German, and English. She graduated in French and German literature with a doctorate in Zurich. A long-time secondary school teacher, lecturer in German at the Sofia University (1923-1936). Member of the Bulgarian Women’s Union, the Bulgarian Association of University Women, the Union
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