Marie Tůmová

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Marie (Maria Antonie) Tůmová (born June 12, 1866 in Prague , Austrian Empire ; died May 1, 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) was a Czechoslovak teacher and suffragette.

Life

Marie Tůmová was the daughter of the Czech politician and member of parliament Karel Tůma and the granddaughter of the writer František Ladislav Čelakovský . She became a teacher in Prague-Smíchov and Prague-Žižkov and became one of the first directresses of a community school for girls in Žižkov . She became president of the Minerva Girls' School Association in Prague. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918, she went to Slovakia as a teacher and was then transferred to Užhorod in the Carpathian-Ukraine as a school inspector . Tůmová was vice-president of the Association of Czech Teachers.

Tůmová initiated the “Czech Women's Club ” ( Ženský klub český ) together with Františka Plamínková in Prague in 1903 . In 1905 they founded the “Committee for Women's Suffrage”. In 1908 she stood as his candidate for by-elections in Vysoké Mýto to the Bohemian state parliament on the list of cities (Second Curia), but was not elected. During a visit by the American suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt in Prague in 1909, Plamínková announced a second candidacy for Tůmová, which also failed.

In 1911 Tůmová published the agitation text “Pro volební právo žen”. In 1911 she was one of the founders of the Union of Czech Women's Associations, and in 1923 she co-founded the Czechoslovak Women's National Council ( Ženská národní rada , ŽNR). Tůmová was also the Czech and later the Czechoslovak delegate at international congresses of the International Alliance of Women (IWSA) and the International Council of Women (ICW).

literature

  • R. Luft:  Tůma (Tuma), Karel (Karl). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 511 f. (Direct links on p. 511 , p. 512 ).
  • Melissa Feinberg: Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovokia, 1918–1950 (= Pitt series in Russian and East European studies ). University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 2006, ISBN 978-0-8229-7103-0 (not viewed).
  • Sharon L. Wolchik: Czech and Slovak Women and Political Leadership . In: Women's history review , in: Routledge Journals , Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, VA 1996, ISSN  0961-2025 , no. 4, pp. 525-538
  • Katherine David: Czech feminists and nationalism in the late Habsburg monarchy: "The first in Austria" , in: Journal of women's history. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 1991, ISSN  1042-7961 , H. 2, pp. 26-45

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article by Františka Plamínková , in: June Hannam, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Katherine Holden: International encyclopedia of women's suffrage . Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 2000, ISBN 1-57607-064-6 , p. 238
personal data
SURNAME Tůmová, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tůmová, Maria Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak teacher and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1925
Place of death Prague