Minka Govekar
Illustration — Minka Govekar Minka Govekar (28 October 1874 – 10 April 1950) was a Slovene teacher, translator, and campaigner for women's rights.
Minka Govekar
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- Born
- 1874. · Trebnje.
- Died
- 1950. · Ljubljana.
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Austria–Hungary.
- Occupation
- translator, writer, opinion journalist, teacher, editor and activist.
- Fields
- women's rights.
- Languages
- Slovene, Russian and Polish.
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Illustration — Minka Govekar Minka Govekar (28 October 1874 – 10 April 1950) was a Slovene teacher, translator, and campaigner for women's rights.
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Minka Govekar (1874–1950) was an activist, editor and opinion journalist, among other activities, a national of Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The activist was born in Trebnje and died in Ljubljana. Minka Govekar was also known as Ivanka and Josip Trdina. Activity centred on women's rights. Languages used include Croatian, German and Polish.
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Life
Minka Govekar was born in Trebnje in 1874. Completing her education at Ljubljana from 1889 to 1893, she qualified as a teacher in 1895 and married in 1897. In 1926 Govekar edited Slovenska žena (Slovenian Woman), a collection of articles on women in different periods of Slovenian history and different creative professions: Slovenska ženska is the first Slovenian collection of women's essays and we take it to be a sort of a blueprint for some future thorough monograph about the suffering, striving and strife of Slovenian women. In her own contribution to the collection, an essay on women authors, Govekar provided information on Fanny Hausmann, Jospina Turnograjska, Lujica Pesjak, Pavlina Pajkova, Marica Nadlišek Bartol, Marica II Strnad Cizarljeva and Zofka Kveder-Demetrovic.
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Works
• Dobra kuharica (The Good Cook), 1903 • Dobra gospodinja (The Good Housewife), 1908 • Slovenska žena (Slovenian Woman), Ljubljana, 1926
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She also worked under the names Josip Trdina, Minka Kastelčeva and Ivanka. Her recorded languages were Slovene, Russian, Polish and Croatian. She married Fran Govekar.
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Minka Govekar is recorded as translator, writer, opinion journalist, teacher and editor.
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1874
Minka Govekar born at Trebnje.
1950
Minka Govekar died at Ljubljana.
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- 1.Govekar, Minka (1874–1950), Slovenska biografija. Accessed 3 August 2019.
- 2.Jelena Petrović. Women's Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: The Politics of Love and Struggle. Springer. 115–7. 2018. 978-3-030-00142-1.
- 3.Minka Govekar, Marija Borštnik, Milica Schaup, Vida Horvat and Mara Lamut, 'Slovenska ženska in slovensko slovstvo' [Slovenian Women and Slovenian Literature], Slovenska žena, 1926
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