Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Nezihe Muhiddin was born in Istanbul in 1889. Between the years of 1911 and 1944, she had 17 novels, 300 stories published. She is one of the front-runners in Ottoman feminism. She believed that for a nation to rise, the women of that nation had
She was born in rich family in Caucasus. Her father is Turk, her mother is Russian. She graduated from Russian gymnasium, in German language she was trained by her governess. In 1917 during the civil war in the Russian Empire she departed alone to Istanbul
She was born on 1934 in the town of Crichim, Plovdiv district. She graduated Turkish Philology from Sofia University (it was the first course in this specialty whose alumni graduated in 1956, among them H. Memova) and then Bulgarian Philology. At first she worked at
Olga Sergeevna Lebedeva (née Barshcheva; Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Лебедева 1854–after 1912) was one of the first to introduce Russian literature to Turkey. She is recognised for her pioneering contributions to the literary networks between the Ottoman and she Russian empires at the end of the 19th century. Lebedeva attended Kazan University, studying
Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941) – a teacher at the American College for Girls in Istanbul (1900-1909). Author of books on the Orient people and the Ottoman lifestyle: Behind Turkish lattices, the story of a Turkish woman’s life (1911), Ibrahim Pasha, grand vizir of Suleiman the