Constanța Pompilian-Zossima (1870-1936)
Mathematician. Studied in Bucharest and Sorbonne. She co-founded the journal Gazeta matematică. She founded in 1896 the Institute Pompilian, a high school for woman.
Category: Women and Education
Iulia Hasdeu (1869-1888)
Poet. Musician. First Romanian woman to study at Sorbonne.
Natalia Dadiani (1865-1903)
Princess Natalia Dadiani was born in a landowner’s family on the sides of Tighina. She studied at the Girls’ Private Gymnasium “B. Narodostavskaia “. Immediately after graduating from the gymnasium, she was invited to stay and take hours of geography. The title of the principy
Iulia Hașdeu (1869 -1882) – the girl with the golden pen
Iulia Hasdeu was born on November 14, 1869. At 6 years and 7 months, she wrote a novel about the life and deeds of Michael the Brave. At the age of eight she graduated from the primary school, already enjoying French, English and German, and
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
Cleopatra Hrșanovschi (1861-1939) – composer
Cleopatra Hrshanovschi (1861, Chisinau – March 15th, 1939, Chisinau) – lied singer, professor and composer. Graduates the Conservatory in Moscow, canto class (1882-1886), and coming back in Chisinau becomes a teacher and the founder of the Private Music School “Clasa cantului individual” (“Class of individual
Baroness Iulia Gheiching (1858 -1935) – First Woman to open a Mixed School in Chisinau
Is finishing studies at the Institute of Noble Girls in Smolnai city in 1876. In 1892 (under the patronage of king’s sister – Xenia Alexandrovna), at the age of ten and after the death of her father, opens a kindergarten in the house of the
The Foundation Sanouhiats (Sanuheatsʿ ěnkerutʿiwn (1884)
It was created in Constantinople. The Mezpourian school of the girls was founded in Hisardibi, in 1865. The graduated young ladies and the pupils of higher classes founded the Sanouhiats Foundation with the purpose to create the Mezpoyrian primarily school in one of the Armenian
The Women Charitable Foundation (Aghkʿatasěr tiknantsʿ ěnkerutʿiwn)
It was created on March 1, 1875, in Constantinople (Beyoğlu) by the efforts of Catholic Armenian Women. Its purpose was to help people in need, but first of all to take care of the children, helping them to resolve their education problems. The foundation had
The Nounian Foundation (Nunean ěnkerutʿiwn (1864-1865)
It was created in Samatya (in Constantinople). There was a girls’ section attached to the St. Sahakian boys’ school of Samatya. In 1857 thanks to the efforts of Samatya’s Armenian community and the activity of the beneficiaries it was possible to obtain a separate building