Božena Zelinková (21 May 1869 – 18 June 1936) was a Czech teacher and women's rights activist.
Biography
Zelinková was born in
Semtěš
Semtěš is a municipality and village in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Demographics
Notable people
*Božena Zelinková (1869–1936), women's rights activist
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in 1869.
In 1908, using a legal loophole, together with
Karla Máchová
Karla Máchová (married Kostelecká; 21 October 1853 – 16 May 1920) was a Czech teacher, women's rights activist, journalist and politician. In 1908, using a legal loophole, Máchová was among the first three women to run for the Bohemian D ...
and
Marie Tůmová
Marie Tůmová (12 June 1866 – 1 May 1925) was a Czech women's suffragist and a teacher. In 1908, using a legal loophole, Tůmová was among the first three women to unsuccessfully run to be elected to the Bohemian Diet.
Career
Teaching
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, she was among the first three women to unsuccessfully run for the
Bohemian Diet
The Bohemian Diet ( cs, Český zemský sněm, german: Böhmischer Landtag) was the parliament of the Kingdom of Bohemia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1861 and Czechoslovak independence in 1918.
The Diet during the Absolutist Per ...
.
Zelinková ran for the
Německý Brod–
Humpolec–
Polná district.
However, she withdrew from the race just before the date of the elections.
References
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1869 births
1936 deaths
People from Kutná Hora District
Czech schoolteachers
Czech suffragists
People from Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovak people