Oľga Glosíková (24 March 1953 – 24 April 2024) was a Slovak politician. From 1991 to 1992, she served as a Deputy of the Federal Assembly of the

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Biography

Oľga Glosíková was born on 24 March 1953 in the village of Kamienka in the

Humenné District Humenné District (''okres Humenné (also spelled Homonna, Homonn, Humen, Harwsfalva)'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1920, the district was mostly part of Zemplén (county) of the Kingdom of Hungary The Ki ...

to a Ruthenian family. She studied philosophy and history at the

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice ( Slovak ''Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach'') is a university located in Košice, Slovakia. It was founded in 1959 and is organized into five faculties. The university is named after P ...

. After graduation she worked as a high school teacher in

Svit Svit is a small town in Poprad District in the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia. It lies west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras. History Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns. It was established in 1934 by busi ...

and later as an assistant professor at the

University of Prešov The University of Prešov in Prešov () is the only public university in the Prešov Self-governing Region of Slovakia. It focuses on the areas of social, natural and theological sciences, sport, arts, management, and health care. It was establi ...

. In the

1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Federal elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 8 and 9 June 1990,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 alongside elections for the Czech and Slovak Assemblies.Nohlen & Stöver, p472 They were t ...

, Glosíková ran in the East Slovakia election district on the list of the Communist Party of Slovakia, which was at the time still affiliated with the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Com ...

. She did not win her mandate outright but became a deputy as a replacement in 1991, when the Slovak part of communist party already split from the Czechoslovak party and rebranded itself as the Party of the Democratic Left, which she represented in the parliament. After the end of her parliamentary mandate, Glosíková returned to the academia. In 2005 she was awarded a doctorate by the

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. In 2007, she became the founding director of a museum of the Ruthenian culture in

Prešov Prešov () is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of administrative Prešov Region () and Šariš. With a population of approximately 85,000 for the city, and in total more than 100,000 with the urban area, it is the second-largest city i ...

Death

Glosíková died on 24 April 2024 at the age of 71.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glosikova, Olga 1953 births 2024 deaths Members of the Chamber of the Nations of Czechoslovakia (1990–1992) Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia) politicians Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians Women museum directors 20th-century Slovak women politicians