Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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The Club of Bulgarian Women Writers was founded in 1930 by the most recognised female poets and writers. Its leaders were authoritative and enterprising women: the playwright and writer Evgenia Mars, creator of a literary salon; Elissaveta Bagryana, the author of the most modern Bulgarian
The teacher, writer, translator, journalist and publisher Ana Karima (1871-1949) was born in Russia, in family of Bulgarian father and Ukrainian mother. She graduated high school in Sofia, as a student of Ekaterina Karavelova. She had been working as a teacher until her marriage to
The Bulgarian satirical press constantly laughed at the lack of women’s abilities in education and sciences and the uselessness of their creative activities. Female pupils were painted with love letters in their hands, with sad and dreamy faces engaged in conversations about toilets, meetings and
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
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 Odessa, in a Jewish family. Graduated in Medicine in Paris (1897). Specialized in Obstetrics. Married a Bulgarian. Doctor in Varna and Shoumen, school doctor in Sofia (1905-1912). Working at the Private Gynecological Clinic of Dr. Paul Strassmann in Berlin (1912-1932). Translator.
Born in Gabrovo. Graduated in Medicine in St. Petersburg as a fellow of the Ministry of Education (1886). Doctor in Ruse, Tarnovo, Varna, and Sofia. Specialized in Internal Diseases and Pediatrics in St. Petersburg (1893) and in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Vienna (1895). Founded midwives’
Born in Chirpan. She graduated Physics in Geneva, the first Doctor of Physics in Bulgaria (1910). Working as a high school teacher in Plovdiv and Sofia (1910-1940). She tried to continue her work in the field of magnetic field and its properties at the Faculty
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
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