About Felicja Nossig
Lived 1855 – 1939 (aged 83–84). Felicja Nossig was a Polish sociologist, journalist, translator and social activist.
Felicia Nossig (1855–1939) was a Polish politician (Social Democrat), sociologist, journalist, feminist and translator.
She graduated as a teacher in 1873, and was active as a journalist from 1891, in several different publications. She was a secretary of the educational association in Lviv (1889), organized the first Women's Worker's Convention in Lviv (1892). She was a single mother and supported herself and her son on translations from Ukrainian and Russian into German from 1893. She was engaged in the Polish women's movement and often engaged as a speaker. In 1894, she studied to be a doctor in sociology in Switzerland.
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Who was Felicja Nossig?
Polish sociologist (1855-1939)
When was Felicja Nossig born?
Felicja Nossig was born in 1855 in Lviv.
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Felicja Nossig died in 1939 in Warsaw.
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Felicja Nossig was a sociologist, journalist, translator and social activist.
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Felicja Nossig was Polish.
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