Kazimiera Żuławska

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Kazimiera Żuławska née Hanicki (22 February 1883 – 18 April 1971) was a Romanist, translator, mountaineer, and women's rights activist.

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Biography She was born Kazimiera Hanicki in Czemerysy to a landed gentry family, daughter of Ignacy Dionizy Hanicki and Zofia née Ostolska. She graduated from the 2nd Warsaw Girls' Gymnasium, receiving a silver medal in 1900 and qualification as a home teacher. She studied Romance studies at the universities in Lviv and Bern. In the latter, in 1910, she obtained a doctorate for her thesis "Women in the Woltera Theater". She married the writer Jerzy Żuławski on 22 June 1907. With her husband and his brother Janusz, she climbed the Alps and the Tatra Mountains. In the years 1910–1921 she lived in Zakopane. After the outbreak of World War I, Jerzy Żuławski joined the Legions, and Kazimiera was the chairman of the Zakopane section of the Women's League of Galicia and Silesia (1915–1918). After her husband's death in 1915, she became the secretary of Kazimierz Tetmajer. The Żuławski House - "Łada" at ul. Chałubińskiego [3] - it was a meeting center for the Zakopane bohemians Witkacy, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Jan Kasprowicz, Tymon Niesiołowski, Bronisław Malinowski. In order to obtain funds for herself and her children, she also ran a guest house and a bakery in "Lada". In independent Poland, she left…Citește mai mult