!!!Burjan, Hildegard geborene Freund

b. Gorlice, Poland (then Goerlitz, Germany), Jan. 30, 1883, 
d. Vienna, June 11, 1933, Christian social reformer and politician, 
1919/20 first Christian Socialist member of the Constituent National 
Assembly, founder of the  Caritas Socialis charity for women, 
organiser of the Christian homeworkers´ society, re-established 
the Travellers' Aid Society, initiator of the St. Elisabeth soup 
kitchens and of the Seipel-Dollfuss Memorial Church in the 15th 
district of Vienna.

!Literature
I. Schoedl, Maennerwelten - Frauenwerke, 1991; M. 
Kronthaler, Die Frauenfrage als treibende Kraft, 1994; I. Schoedl 
(ed.), Hoffnung hat einen Namen. Hildegard Burjan und die Caritas 
Socialis, 1995. I. Schoedl, Zwischen Politik und Kirche - H. B., 
2000.



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