Antonina Leśniewska

Antonina Leśniewska (1866 in Warsaw – 12 March 1937 in Warsaw) was a Polish pharmacist, social and educational activist, owner of the first women's pharmacy in St. Petersburg, patron of the Warsaw Museum of Pharmacy.

Biography Antonina Leśniewska was born in Warsaw in 1866, the daughter of Bolesław Leśniewski, a doctor, and Michalina née Szeluto. Until 1882 she studied at Henryka Czarnocka's boarding school in Warsaw, where she completed six grades. It was then that her family decided to move to St. Petersburg, where her father served as a freelance doctor. She completed her seventh grade at the Catholic high school at St. Catherine's Church on Nevsky Prospekt. Greatly influenced by her father, she began to pursue her dream of pursuing a pharmaceutical education. She continued her education at the Bestuzhev Higher Courses for Girls in St. Petersburg. After completing the courses in 1889, she worked as a teacher, and in 1892 she was employed in one of the St. Petersburg pharmacies. In order to start an apprenticeship in a pharmacy, she first had to supplement her education with a Latin course, which was lacking in the programs of girls' school. In the boys' school, where she took the Latin exam, she was the first woman in history to do so there. She then started an apprenticeship in her hometown, where there was only one pharmacy. Her owner, as a friend of Leśniewska's father, took…Citește mai mult

Commemoration In 1985, one of the pharmacies opened by the company was located in a tenement house at 72 Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw. The Museum of Pharmacy named after her was established at Piwna Street.