Marta Zofia Rzewuska-Frankowska, pseudonym Izia, (born 12 March 1889 in Siedlce, died 24 May 1954) – anthropologist and teacher. She was also known as Marta Frankowska and taught secret classes in war-torn Poland in 1939.
Marta Zofia Rzewuska-Frankowska, pseudonym Izia, (born 12 March 1889 in Siedlce, died 24 May 1954) – anthropologist and teacher. She was also known as Marta Frankowska and taught secret classes in war-torn Poland in 1939.
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Biography; She was born Marta Zofia Rzewuska, the daughter of Aleksander Rzewuski and Józefa née Męczkowska. She graduated from Jan Miłkowski's Higher Pedagogical Courses for Women in Warsaw and took up work as a teacher at the Railway School in Żbikowo near Warsaw. At the same time, she began running workers' circles and working as a courier transporting socialist papers from Kraków to Warsaw. For her political activity, she was expelled from school in 1905 and In 1906 she joined the Union of Socialist Youth, and in 1910 the Polish Socialist Party. In 1913 she left for Zurich, where she began her studies in anthropology, but she had to interrupt them due to financial difficulties. She spent World War I working on the board of the Polish Self-Help Committee in Switzerland. After the War, she completed her anthropological studies at the University of Lviv, married Eugeniusz Frankowski, and in 1924 she obtained a doctorate in philosophy for her thesis, Skulls from the Lviv Latin Cathedral of the 17th and 18th centuries. She contributed to the establishment of the Polish Anthropological Society. Throughout the interwar period, as well as after World War II, she worked as an educator in various primary…