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 females.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

Life

Blanka Teleki was born on 5 July 1806 in

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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

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near Ukraine.Teleki Blanka
, Sulinet.hu, retrieved 18 July 2015 She was the niece of the education pioneer

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. She studied painting in

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and

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, and sculpture under

István Ferenczy István Ferenczy (February 24, 1792 – July 4, 1856) was a Hungarian sculptor. Career Ferenczy made a number of exerted attempts to establish a school of sculpture in Hungary and it was his mission to establish and promote national art i ...

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. 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

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, and was therefore sentenced to imprisonment. In 1851 she was imprisoned with

Klára Leövey Klára Leövey (1821–1897), was a Hungarian pioneer educator and women's rights activist. She was the manager of the Teleki Blanka Gymnasium in Budapest from 1846 to 1848 after being recommended by Teréz Karacs. She participated in the Hungar ...

, who was released in 1856. After having served her sentence, she left Hungary for Paris and died there on 23 October 1862.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Teleki, Blanka 1806 births 1862 deaths People from Maramureș County Hungarian women's rights activists Hungarian feminists 19th-century Hungarian people

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