Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Dorottya Kanizsai (c. 1490 – 1532): Founder of Hungarian War Grave Caretaking

Dorottya Kanizsai was born at the end of the 1400s into the aristocratic Kanizsai family, a well-known and widely respected house of the era. The members of the family had always filled high positions in fields such as the military, politics or ecclesiastical life. However, as the genealogical works that deal with the family’s history could not clearly determine from which exact branch of the family tree she is a descendant of or who her parents were, Dorottya had been simply left out of the papers documenting the lineage of the Kanizsai family. Her letters and her will are the only remaining documents that allowed historians to hypothesize that she could have been the daughter of László Kanizsai Sr., a fifteenth-century lord lieutenant of Zala county, landlord, and master of the horse to the king, who fought against the Ottoman forces at the siege of Nándorfehérvár (now Belgrade, Serbia) in 1456, and was captured in 1457 alongside Matthias Corvinus, the future king of Hungary.

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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