Ana Conta-Kernbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ana Conta-Kernbach

Romanian pedagogue and suffratist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1865

Place of Birth: Târgu Neamț, Neamț County, Romania

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1921

Profession: writer, teacher, activist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Ana Conta-Kernbach

  • Ana Conta-Kernbach (5 November 1865 – 13 December 1921) was a Romanian teacher, writer, and women's rights activist.
  • Educated at the Humpel Institute in Iasi, she graduated in 1883 and began teaching there that same year.
  • Continuing her studies at the same time, she enrolled at the University of Iasi, studying both in the normal school and philosophical faculties.
  • In 1885, she transferred to the Oltea Doamna Lyceum and graduated in 1888.
  • In 1893, she went to Paris to study at the University of Paris and the Collège de France, earning her doctorate in 1895.
  • Returning to Romania, she became the director of the Normal School of Applications and taught both pedagogy and psychology at the Mihail Sturdza Normal School for more than two decades.
  • In addition to her teaching Conta-Kernbach published literary works beginning 1891 and in her later life as an active suffragist published articles in favor of women's rights and equality.
  • She was one of the founders in 1918, of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women in Ia?i.
  • The first woman admitted to the General Council of Instruction, she also served from 1913 as the inspector for all girls' schools throughout the country until her death in 1921.
  • Conta-Kernbach was honored twice by the government of Romania with the Educational Work Reward Medal, first class, for both primary and secondary education.
  • She is regarded as one of the pioneering teachers who helped develop the educational system and pedagogic theory in Romania.

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