Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska

Zofia Emilia Daszyńska-Golińska or Zofia Golińska, née Zofia Poznańska (6 August 1866 – 11 February 1934) was a Polish socialist politician, suffragist and professor. She was an early female senator in Poland.

Life Daszyńska-Golińska was born in Warsaw in 1866. Her father and her mother came from educated families. She became interested in social issues and science and after studying at the Warsaw government school she went to Zurich. In Switzerland she studied philosophy, history, politics, and economics. In Zurich, she found herself in the circle of students gathered around the magazine published in Geneva by Stanisław Mendelson. The circle was called "Olympus" and was formed by young people with socialist views: Barbora Burbaitė, , Stanisława Popławska and her husband, Maria Kozłowska, Aleksander Tupalski, Gabriel Narutowicz, Joanna Billewicz, Teodor Kodis, and Józefa Krzyżanowska. Her second husband was a botanist named Golinski, although she remained interested in the politics she shared with her first husband.

Legacy She died in 1934 in Warsaw. She was awarded the Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta. She had published more than eighty books,