Blanka Teleki

Léon Cogniet : Blanka Teleki , oil on canvas, before 1862.

Blanka Teleki de Szék (born July 5, 1806 in Langendorf near Frauenbach , † October 23, 1862 in Paris ) was a Hungarian countess who worked as a women's rights activist , promoter of women's education and artist.

Life

Blanka Teleki was born on July 5, 1806 in Langendorf, today's Satulung in Romania (Hungarian Kővárhosszúfalu). Her parents were Count Imre Teleki (* 1782, † 1848) and his wife Karoline Brunsvik (* 1782, † 1843). She was the niece of the educational reformer Therese Brunsvik , who founded the first kindergarten in Hungary in 1828.

Teleki first decided on an artistic career. She studied painting in Léon Cogniet's studio in Munich and Paris and sculpture with István Ferenczy in Budapest . After she had published her ideas for the education of women, she opened her own school for girls in Budapest in 1846. In 1848 Teleki and some of her students demanded in a petition equal rights for men and women in Hungary, women's suffrage and access to universities for women. She also took part in the Hungarian Revolution in the same year. As a result, she was arrested. In particular, the imprisonment in the fortress made Telekis famous. While in custody, she created small sculptures, including self-portraits, one of which she is said to have sent to Jules Michelet in France . After she was released in 1857, Teleki left Hungary and settled in Paris. She died there on October 23, 1862.

literature

Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 .
Constantin von Wurzbach : Teleki von Szék, Blanca Countess . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 43. Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1881, p. 240 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Blanka Teleki - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Blanka also had two younger siblings: Emma (* 1809, † 1893) and Maximilian ( Hungarian Miksa; * 1813, † 1872).
^ Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 , p. 218.
^ Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch: The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918: Political public and civil society. Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7001-3540-1 , p. 1362.
^ Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 , p. 219.

personal data
SURNAME	Teleki, Blanka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teleki de Szék, Blanka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian artist, educational reformer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Satulung
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1862
Place of death	Paris

[1] Blanka also had two younger siblings: Emma (* 1809, † 1893) and Maximilian ( Hungarian Miksa; * 1813, † 1872).

[2] Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 , p. 218.

[3] Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch: The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918: Political public and civil society. Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-7001-3540-1 , p. 1362.

[4] Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 , p. 219.