Paulette Brupbacher

Paulette Brupbacher , née Paulette Raygrodsky (16 January 1880, Pinsk - 31 December 1967, Unterendingen) was a doctor and libertarian feminist.

A Neo-Malthusian, she advocated for birth control and the right to abortion.

She was the second wife of Fritz Brupbacher, who wrote the preface for her Russian-to-French translation of Bakunin's Confession, which was published in Paris in 1932. She often visited James Guillaume and Peter Kropotkin.

Biography Funerary urn of Paulette et Fritz Brupbacher at the Hönggerberg cemetery in Zurich. The gravestone bears the inscription : "DOCTORS OF THE POOR". She studied philosophy in Bern from 1902, attaining her doctorate in 1907. She then moved to Geneva and studied medicine.

In September 1948, she published an article in La Révolution prolétarienne, "La littérature russe d’aujourd’hui" ("Russian literature today"), denouncing the servility of Russian writers towards the Stalinist regime. An enemy of conformity and of partisan discipline, she is the author of many works, including Rationalisierung und Hygiene (1932), Sexualfrage und Geburtenregelung (1936), and Rebeverbot in den Kantonen Solothurn und Glarus (1935). In 1952, she went to spend several years in a kibbutz in Tel Aviv and wrote Meine Patientinnen (1953) et Hygiene für Jedermann (1955). She later returned to Zurich, and died in 1967.

Works Mikhaïl Bakounine, Confession, introduction de Fritz Brupbacher et des annotations de Max Nettlau, Paris, Rieder, 1932. Mikhaïl Bakounine, Confession, avant-propos de Boris Souvarine, introduction de Fritz Brupbacher et des annotations de Max Nettlau, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1974. Mikhaïl Bakounine, Confession, préface de Franck L'Huillier, introduction de Fritz Brupbacher et des annotations de Max Nettlau, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001.