Elena Meissner

Elena Meissner

Born	1867 Huși
Died	1940
Nationality	Romania

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 and Calypso Botez.^[1] She participated in several international women suffrage congresses as delegate of Romania.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 4 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.

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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