Elena Meissner

Elena Meissner
Elena Meissner.jpg
Born1867
Huși
Died1940
NationalityRomania

Elena Meissner also called Elena Buznea-Meissner, (born Elena Buznea; 1867–1940) was a Romanian feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Romanian women's movement organisation Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române (1918) and its president in 1919.[1]

Life

Meissner was born in 1867.

She was one of the first female students to attend the University of Iași in the 1880s. In 1905 she married politician Constantin Meissner (1854-1942).[1] In 1918, she co-founded the Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române alongside Maria Baiulescu, Ella Negruzzi, Calypso Botez,[1] Ana Conta-Kernbach, Izabela Sadoveanu, Ortansa Satmary and Olga Sturdza [ro].[2] She participated in several international women suffrage congresses as delegate of Romania.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Francisca de Haan; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (2006). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 328–330. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.
  2. ^ Dimitriu, Andreea (29 September 2011). Le féminisme roumain et ses affinitésavec le féminisme français (1918-1940) [Romanian Feminism and Its Affinities with French Feminism (1918-1940)] (PDF) (PhD) (in French). Iași, Romania: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. p. 105. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.

References

  • Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Easterna and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Central European University Press, 2006
  • George Marcu (coord.), Enciclopedia personalităţilor feminine din România, Editura Meronia, Bucureşti, 2012.



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