Maria Teresa de Borbon-Parma

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María Teresa de Borbón-Parma , also: Maria Teresa von Bourbon-Parma (born July 28, 1933 in Paris ; † March 26, 2020 there ), was a Spanish-French sociologist .

family

Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma came from the noble Bourbon-Parma family . She was the third of six children of Franz Xaver von Bourbon-Parma (1889–1977), Duke of Parma and Piacenza, and his wife Madeleine nee. Princess of Bourbon-Busset (1898–1984), daughter of Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count of Lignières. Her brother was Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma . She belonged to the Carlist branch of the Spanish royal family.

Via her father, Maria Teresa was a first cousin of both Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011) and the former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (1921–2019). Zita von Habsburg-Lothringen (1892–1989) was her aunt and godmother at the same time.

Life

She grew up in the Château du Vieux-Bost in Besson, France . After attending school in Tours , she studied and did her doctorate in Hispanic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris . At the Complutense University of Madrid , she was in political science doctorate. She was a professor of political sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid and also at the Sorbonne.

In addition, she dealt with Islam and campaigned for women's rights in the Arab states. She was known as the "Red Princess" for her progressive ideas. Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma was never married and had no children. She died in March 2020 at the age of 86 during the COVID-19 pandemic of the consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris.

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  1. mariangel Alcázar: María Teresa de Borbón-Parma, la princesa roja. In: La Vanguardia. March 28, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 (Spanish).
  2. Edouard Launet: Maria-Teresa de Bourbon Parme. Princesse rouge. In: Liberation . July 23, 2014, accessed March 30, 2020 (French).
  3. a b c Alyssa Morin: Spanish Princess Becomes the First Royal to Die of Coronavirus Complications. In: E! News. March 28, 2020, accessed on March 29, 2020 .