Elena Pop-Hossu-Longin (26 November 1862 – 15 May 1940) was an Austro-Hungarian-born

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n writer, journalist, socialist, suffragist and women's rights activist.

Biography

Elena Pop was born in Szilágyillésfalva (Băsești) (

Szilágy County Szilágy (Romanian: Sălaj) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Romania. The capital of the county was Zilah (present-day Zalău in Romania). Geography Szilágy county shared ...

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) in the family of Maria Loșonți and the politician,

Gheorghe Pop de Băsești Gheorghe Pop de Băsești () or George Pop de Băsești (), also known under the nickname ''Badea'' Gheorghe or ''Badea'' George (roughly Brother or Uncle Gheorghe/George) (1 August 1835 – 23 February 1919) was an Imperial Austrian-born Roman ...

. In 1882, she married lawyer Francisc Hossu-Longin. Pop-Hossu-Longin was a leading figure of the Romanian women's movement and engaged in the struggle for equal rights between men and women, particularly in regards to education. She was co-founder of ''Reuniunea Femeilor Române Sălăjene'' (Union of Romanian Women of Sălaj) in 1880, co-founder of ''Reuniunea Femeilor Române Hunedorene'' (Union of Romanian Women of Hunedoara) in 1886 and its president from 1895 to 1918.

Awards

* 1879, received the Decoration of the Cross of Queen Elisabeth in recognition for the fundraising she carried out for the soldiers wounded in the

Romanian War of Independence The Romanian War of Independence is the name used in Romanian historiography to refer to the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), following which Romania, fighting on the Russian side, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. On , Romania and the R ...

References

Sources

* 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.), Dicţionarul personalităţilor feminine din România, Editura Meronia, București, 2009. 1862 births 1940 deaths People from Maramureș County Romanian Austro-Hungarians Romanian women's rights activists Romanian feminists Romanian socialist feminists 19th-century Romanian people {{Romania-bio-stub