Felicia Nossig (1855–1939) was a Polish politician (Social Democrat), sociologist, journalist, feminist and translator. She graduated as a teacher in 1873, and was active as a journalist from 1891, in several different publications. She was a secretary of the educational association in

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(1889), organized the first Women's Worker's Convention in Lviv (1892). She was a single mother and supported herself and her son on translations from Ukrainian and Russian into German from 1893. She was engaged in the Polish

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and often engaged as a speaker. In 1894, she studied to be a doctor in sociology in Switzerland.

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* Aneta Górnicka-Boratyńska: Chcemy całego życia. Warszawa: Fundacja Res Publica, 1999, s. 128–147. . 1855 births 1939 deaths Polish women's rights activists 19th-century Polish journalists Polish sociologists Polish women sociologists Polish social democrats Polish translators Polish socialist feminists 19th-century Polish women writers 19th-century Polish translators Polish suffragists 20th-century Polish journalists 19th-century Polish women journalists 20th-century Polish women journalists People from Austria-Hungary Journalists from Austria-Hungary Educators from Austria-Hungary {{Poland-politician-stub