Cezaryna Wojnarowska

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Cezaryna Wanda Wojnarowska (born May 1, 1861 in Kamjanez-Podilskyj , † April 15, 1911 in Paris ) was a Polish socialist .

Life

Wojnarowska came from a family of the Polish aristocracy ( Szlachta ). She attended high school in Chișinău and studied in Saint Petersburg in 1877/78 . From 1877 to 1883 she was a member of the first Polish socialist circles in Saint Petersburg, Warsaw and Cracow, as well as a member of the first Polish workers' party "Proletariat". She was arrested in 1879 as well as in 1881 and 1883 for her political activities, and each was imprisoned for a short time. Wojnarowska emigrated end of 1883 in the Switzerland . From 1884 to 1889 she was co-editor of the Polish socialist magazines Przedświt (Dawn) and Walka Klas (class struggle) in Geneva as well as an employee of the magazine Przegląd Tygodniowy (newsreel). From 1889 she studied history and literature at the Sorbonne , among others with the famous revolutionary historian François-Alphonse Aulard . In 1893 she became a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKP; from 1899: Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania , SDKPiL). From 1900 to 1904 she represented the SDKPiL at the International Socialist Bureau of the Second International in Brussels . Her successor was Rosa Luxemburg . In the last years of her life, Wojnarowska was also active in the French socialist movement.

Honors

The Polish Post honored her in 1982 by issuing a special stamp .

literature

  • Janina Kasprzakowa: Cezaryna Wojnarowska . Iskry, Warsaw 1978.
  • Bożena Krzywobłocka: Cezaryna Wojnarowska . Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1979.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Illustration of the postage stamp
personal data
SURNAME Wojnarowska, Cezaryna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wojnarowska, Cezaryna Wanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish socialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamianets-Podilskyi
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1911
Place of death Paris