Stefania Sempołowska

Polish educator, activist and writer

Stefania Sempołowska
Stefania Sempołowska
Born	(1869-10-01)1 October 1869 Polonisz, Poland
Died	31 January 1944(1944-01-31) (aged 74) Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	Educator, activist
Nationality	Polish

Stefania Sempołowska (1 October 1869 – 31 January 1944) was a Polish educator, activist and writer.

She has been described as the leader of the movement for prisoners' rights in Poland during most of her lifetime.^[1]

Biography

Sempołowska was born on 1 October 1869^[2] in the village of Polonisz, Poznań Voivodeship (now Greater Poland Voivodeship). At age 17 she passed the Teacher Patent at the Government Commission in Warsaw. Since then she was a teacher, supporter of education, kids' rights activist, journalist, and writer – she wrote many school books. Between the World Wars, she became a publicist who fought for equal educational opportunities. She was a member of the Democratic Education Society "Nowe Tory" ("New Tracks"), co-editor of the teen magazine Z bliska i z daleka ("From Near and Far"), and later the biweekly for kids and educators W słońcu ("In the Sun"). She died on 31 January 1944^[3] in Warsaw, and her funeral took place on 2 February.^[3]

References

^ Kenney, Padraic (October 2012). ""I felt a kind of pleasure in seeing them treat us brutally." The Emergence of the Political Prisoner, 1865–1910". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 54 (4): 863–889. doi:10.1017/S0010417512000448. ISSN 0010-4175.
^ "Stefania Sempołowska - Carrying the torch of education". Polskieradio.pl. 1 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Socio-educational activity of Stefania Sempołowska (1869–1944)" (PDF). Pedagogikaspoleczna.com. 7 July 2020.