Elena Meissner also called Elena Buznea-Meissner, (born Elena Buznea; 1867–1940) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n 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.

Life

Meissner was born in 1867 in

Huși Huși (, Yiddish/ he, חוש ''Khush'', hu, Huszváros, German: ''Hussburg'') is a city in Vaslui County, Romania, former capital of the disbanded Fălciu County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, Romanian Orthodox episcopal see, an ...

, the former capital of the disbanded

Fălciu County Fălciu County was an administrative division of Moldavia (until 1859), then a county ('' judeṭ'') in Romania between 1859 and 1950. Its capital was the town of Huși. Another important town was Fălciu. History Fălciu was a land (''ṭinut'') ...

in the historical region of

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. She was one of the first female students to attend the

University of Iași The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mih ...

in the 1880s. In 1905 she married politician

Constantin Meissner Constantin Meissner (May 27, 1854–September 19, 1942) was a Romanian pedagogue and schoolteacher. Born in Iași in the Principality of Moldavia (present-day Romania), his family was of German origin. He studied at the private ''Institutul Aca ...

(1854–1942). In 1918, she co-founded the ''Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române'' alongside Maria Baiulescu, Ella Negruzzi, Calypso Botez,

Ana Conta-Kernbach Ana Conta-Kernbach (5 November 1865 – 13 December 1921) was a Romanian teacher, writer, and women's rights activist. Educated at the in Iași, she graduated in 1883 and began teaching there that same year. Continuing her studies at the same ...

, Izabela Sadoveanu, Ortansa Satmary and . She participated in several international women suffrage congresses as delegate of Romania.

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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, București, 2012. 1867 births 1940 deaths People from Huși Romanian suffragists Romanian feminists Romanian women's rights activists 19th-century Romanian people {{Romania-bio-stub