Eliška Purkyňová

Eliška Purkyňová (16 November 1868 – 22 October 1933) was a Czechoslovak politician. In 1920, she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography Purkyňová was born Alžběta Josefa Čapková in Libochovice in 1868. In 1915, she became head of the Central Association of Czech Women, and was a member of the bord of trustees of the Reform Gymnasium in Vinohrady. After being elected, she served as vice-chair of the Bohemian provincial branch of the CND. She initiated the construction of an elderly care home in Prague (today the Eliška Purkyňová Home for the Elderly), which she became the first director of in 1924. In 1923 she became a member of the initial board of the Little Entente of Women. She left parliament in 1925 after a single term in office.

She died in Prague in 1933.