About Elena Meissner
Lived 1867 – 1940 (aged 72–73). Elena Meissner was a Romanian suffragette.
Elena Meissner also called Elena Buznea-Meissner, (born Elena Buznea; 1867–1940) was a Romanian feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Romanian women's movement organisation Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române and its president in 1919.
Life Meissner was born in 1867 in Huși, the former capital of the disbanded Fălciu County in the historical region of Western Moldavia. She was one of the first female students to attend the University of Iași in the 1880s. In 1905 she married politician Constantin Meissner (1854–1942). She participated in several international women suffrage congresses as delegate of Romania.
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Who was Elena Meissner?
Romanian feminist
When was Elena Meissner born?
Elena Meissner was born in 1867 in Huși.
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Elena Meissner died in 1940.
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Elena Meissner was a suffragette.
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Elena Meissner was Romanian.
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