Marie Popelin
Marie Popelin | |
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Born | |
Died | 5 June 1913 Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium | (aged 66)
Occupation(s) | jurist, teacher, political campaigner |
Known for | First woman to receive a law doctorate in Belgium |
Marie Popelin (16 December 1846 – 5 June 1913) was a Belgian
Biography
Marie Popelin was born in Schaerbeek near Brussels into a middle-class family on 16 September 1846.[1] One of her brothers was a doctor, another an army officer—Marie Popelin was well educated by the standards of the time and place. Along with her sister Louise, she taught in Brussels at an institution run by the leading feminist teacher Isabelle Gatti de Gamond from 1864 to 1875. Disagreements with Gatti led to the sisters moving to Mons to run a new school for girls there, established with Liberal assistance. In 1882, Marie Popelin returned to Brussels to head the middle school in nearby Laeken, but was removed from her post the following year.[2]
The "Popelin Affair"
At the age of 37, Popelin enrolled at the
Political activities
Marie Popelin participated in two feminist conferences in Paris in 1889, and established the
In spite of this tepid initial reception, many of Popelin objectives were met before her death in 1913.[citation needed] These legislative reforms did not, however, include two of Popelin's most important demands: universal adult suffrage, and equal access to the liberal professions for women. Modern studies[citation needed] acknowledge Marie Popelin's central role in the creation of a Belgian feminist movement.
Commemoration
Popelin has been commemorated in numerous ways within Belgium. She featured on a Belgian postage stamp during the
On 16 December 2020, Google celebrated her 174th birthday with a Google Doodle.[11]
See also
- List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe
- List of women's rights activists
- Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
- Timeline of women's suffrage
Citations
- ^ Biographie nationale 1976, p. 733.
- ^ Biographie nationale 1976, p. 733-4.
- ^ Biographie nationale 1976, p. 734.
- ^ Carlier 2010, pp. 503–22.
- ^ Albisetti 2000, pp. 825–57.
- ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.[page needed]
- ^ de Bueger-Van Lierde 1972, pp. 1128–37.
- ^ Mossman 2008, pp. 199–200.
- ^ a b Biographie nationale 1976, p. 735.
- ^ National Bank of Belgium website.
- ^ "Marie Popelin's 174th Birthday". Google. 16 December 2020.
References
- Albisetti, James C. (2000). "Portia Ante Portas: Women and the Legal Profession in Europe, ca. 1870–1925". Journal of Social History. 33 (4): 825–857. S2CID 153728481.
- Carlier, Julie (2010). "Forgotten Transnational Connections and National Contexts: an 'entangled history' of the political transfers that shaped Belgian feminism, 1890–1914". S2CID 144522751.
- de Bueger-Van Lierde, F. (1976). "Popelin, Marie". Biographie nationale de Belgique. Vol. 39. Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique. 733-742.
- de Bueger-Van Lierde, Françoise (1972). "A l'origine du mouvement féministe en Belgique. "L'Affaire Popelin"". Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (in French). 50 (4): 1128–1137. .
- Mossman, Mary Jane (2008). "The First Women Lawyers: Gender Equality and Professionalism in Law". Honouring Social Justice. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-9235-0.
- "New 2-euro commemorative coin on display in the Museum (2011)". National Bank of Belgium Museum. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
Further reading
- JSTOR 3779562.
- Nandrin, Jean-Pierre (2006). "POPELIN, Marie (1846–1913)". In Gubin, Éliane; et al. (eds.). Dictionnaire des femmes belges XIXe et XXe siècles (in French). Bruxelles: Racine. ISBN 978-2-87386-434-7.
- Aubenas, Jacqueline; Van Rokeghem, Suzanne; Vercheval-Vervoort, Jeanne (2006). Des femmes dans l'histoire en Belgique, depuis 1830 (in French). Brussels: Luc Piré. ISBN 978-2-87415-523-9.
- Schandevyl, Eve (2016). "Women and the Courts in Twentieth-Century Belgium: An Historical Perspective". In Kimble, Sara L.; Röwekamp, Marion (eds.). New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-80554-5.