Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Emma Bartoniek (1894–1957): The First Hungarian Woman to Enter the Annals of Historical Science

Emma Bartoniek, born in Budapest on November 28, 1894, was weaned on a fascination with scientific pursuits. Bartoniek’s mother was Ilona Szumrák; her father, Géza Bartoniek (1854–1930) was a preeminent physicist and teaching assistant to Loránd Eötvös. In 1895, while Eötvös served as minister, he was commissioned to organize the Eötvös College, which he headed until 1927. Emma’s only brother Emil had, like his father, started out as a promising physicist, but died a hero at the Galician front in 1915. The youngest of her three sisters, Paula, Júlia and Anna, became a recognized painter. Her maternal aunt, Julianna Szumrák married the academic linguist Szende Riedl and was the mother of the literary historian Frigyes Riedl. Emma Bartoniek never started a family of her own, concentrating instead on scholarly pursuits to the end of her life. Explaining what this career meant to her, she emphasized that “I am not saying that I sacrificed my life on the altar of science. It was not a sacrifice but the greatest joy, for science gave me much more than I ever gave to science.”

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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