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Concepción Aleixandre
María de la Concepcion Aleixandre Ballester, also known as Maria de la Concepcion Isidra Faustina Stephanie Vicenta (1862, Valencia – 1952), was a Spanish teacher, medical doctor, gynecologist, inventor, scientist, and writer. She was the first woman admitted to Spain's Gynecological Society. Biography Concepción was born in Valencia in a wealthy family. Soon after graduating from high-school, she continued her studies at Escuela Normal Femenina de Valencia where she received her teaching degree, however, she would never end up teaching. Throughout her life, she maintained her constant desire and interest towards pedagogy. Aleixandre decided to follow a very unusual, unknown and unthinkable path for women at the time (usually condemned to domestic home jobs and child education), she inscribed herself in the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad de Valencia. Being one of the first women to choose this path, she had to confront many issues with the university's management, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia
Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (river), Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, third-most populated municipality in the country, with 825,948 inhabitants. The urban area of Valencia has 1.5 million people while the metropolitan region has 2.5 million. Valencia was founded as a Roman Republic, Roman colony in 138 BC as '. As an autonomous city in late antiquity, its militarization followed the onset of the threat posed by the Spania, Byzantine presence to the South, together with effective integration to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in the late 6th century. Al-Andalus, Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
