Blanka Teleki
Countess Blanka Teleki de Szék (5 July 1806 – 23 October 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman, educator and women's rights activist. She is regarded as an early feminist and pioneer in the education of women. • Illustration — Blanka Teleki
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Blanka Teleki
Viktor Madarász · Public domain
- Born
- 1806
- Died
- 1862
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor · pedagogue · feminist
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Blanka Teleki was born on 5 July 1806 in Satulung in what is now Romania to Count Imre Teleki de Szék (1782-1848) and Countess Karoline Brunswick von Korompa (1782-1843). Her family had an estate in Satu Mare County near Ukraine. She was the niece of the education pioneer Teréz Brunszvik. She studied painting in München and Paris, and sculpture under István Ferenczy in Budapest. After having published her ideas regarding women's education, she founded her own school for girls in Budapest in 1846. In 1848, she and her pupils became the first females in Hungary to sign a petition demanding equal rights for men and women in Hungary, demanding women suffrage and the right for women to attend university. She participated in the Revolution of 1848, and was therefore sentenced to imprisonment. In 1851 she was imprisoned with Klára Leövey, who was released in 1856. After having served her sentence, she left Hungary for Paris and died there on 23 October 1862.
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Blanka Teleki (5 July 1806 – 23 October 1862) is described as an educationalist and feminist in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Blanka Teleki is recorded on 5 July 1806, and the death on 23 October 1862 in Paris. For the birthplace of Blanka Teleki, Hosszúfalva is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Baia Mare by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Plaque apposée au n° 37 de la rue de Vaugirard, Paris 6 e. « Les comtesses hongroises Blanche de Teleki (1806-1862) et Emma Teleki de Gérando (1815-1893), écrivains, révolutionnaires et patriotes, éminentes représentantes de l'amitié franco-hongroise, vécurent dans cette maison. »
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Pannon University, Georgikon Faculty, plaque of Júlia Szendrey on the facade of the former Szendrey family house. - Keszthely, Zala County, Hungary.
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1806
Blanka Teleki born at Satulung.
1862
Blanka Teleki died at Paris.
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- 1.Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-7326-39-1, S. 218.
- 2.Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch: Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918: Politische Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft. Vereine, Parteien und Interessenverbände als Träger der politischen Partizipation. Wien 2006, ISBN 978-3-7001-3540-1, S. 1362.
- 3.Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-7326-39-1, S. 219.
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