Theres Karach ( Hungarian. Karacs Teréz ; April 18, 1808, Budapest , Austria-Hungary - October 2, 1892, Bekes , Austria-Hungary) - Hungarian writer, public figure and figure in the field of education. One of the leaders of the early feminist movement and the leaders of the reform movement in Hungary. Founder of the Grammar School Ilona Zrin in Miskolc .
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Biography
Born in 1808 in Budapest [2] . Her mother Eva Takach was an activist for women's rights, and her father Ferenc Karach was an engineer. The family home often served as a meeting place for the intelligentsia. She received primary education at the Pest school, where she studied from 1814 to 1819. Then she studied on her own, although she had to look after brothers and sisters, of whom she had five. 1824 left for ten months in Vienna , which influenced the formation of her worldview [3] .
At that time, few Hungarian writers recognized their professional status, but Karach published his poems, puzzles, novels and other works from 1922, becoming a famous figure in Hungarian literature. She also became an active correspondent in Hungarian literary magazines. From 1838 to 1844 she was the owner of an aristocratic estate, holding it on her own. At this time, she becomes a fighter for women's rights, imitating her mother in this. As an active worker, she fought for equal rights for boys and girls to study at school and advocated that single women have the right to receive a profession to provide for themselves.
In 1846, Karach founded her own school for girls in Miskolc , which she supervised until 1859. Four teachers worked at the school, and the training lasted three years. They taught Hungarian and German, arithmetic, economics and sewing.
Before the revolution of 1848, actively distributed revolutionary newspapers. In 1853, published a collection of short romantic stories. From 1865 to 1877 she worked as a private teacher in Budapest. Due to her reputation, the grandson of Louis Philippe I was invited as a personal teacher, but she refused and headed the grammar school of Ilona Zrin in Miskolc .
In 1877, to reduce living expenses, she moved to Kishkunhalash and lived with relatives. During the 1880s, some journals published her memoirs, which were taken very critically.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Teréz Karacs (1808-1892) - 2011.
- ↑ Kft, Antikvarium hu. Szarka Ágota: Karacs Teréz (1808-1892) (Országos Pedagógiai Könyvtár és Múzeum, 1993) .
- ↑ Haan, Francisca de. Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries : [ eng. ] / Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi. - Central European University Press, 2006-01-01. - ISBN 9789637326394 .