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

Maria Dayrova-Hadjiangelova (1876-1943)

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 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

Elizabeth Clarke (1868-1942)

Daughter of American missionary family in Plovdiv. Graduated preschool pedagogy at the Chicago University, she founded and managed the American kindergarten in Samokov (1898-1900) and Sofia (1900-1932). Established teachers’ courses in Sofia (1929). Elizabeth Clarke with students

Eugenia Reuss-Ianculescu (1865/1866-1938)

Feminist, writer. She founded ‘Liga drepturilor si datoriilor femeilor’ in Iasi in 1911. Member of the Central committee of the International Women Suffrage Alliance.

Elena Văcărescu (1864-1947)

Writer, translator. She studied in Paris where she published her first volum of poetry,  Chants d’Aurore. Exiled for being romantically involved with the crown prince Ferdinand, she lived in Paris. She was member of the Romanian delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919. Continue Reading

Elena Lazo-Luzghin (1871-1933)

She was born on January 10, 1871, in Lungeni, Iaşi region, in the family of Stephan Crushevan. She died on 13 March 1933 in Chisinau. A romanian devoted to the work of charity, becomes a member and activates in various institutions operating in Chisinau: the Continue Reading