Troll-Borostyáni, Irma von geborene Troll Pseudonym Leo Bergen, Veritas#

b. Salzburg, March 31, 1849, d. Salzburg, Feb. 10, 1912, defender of women´s rights, narrative writer and journalist. Pioneer of the Austrian women´s' liberation movement, began as a music teacher, 1874 married the writer Nandor von Borostyáni (d. 1902). In her programmatic script "Die Mission unseres Jahrhunderts" (1878) ("The Mission of Our Century") she demanded free choice of education and profession for women as well as universal suffrage. 1903 published the "Katechismus der Frauenbewegung" ("Catechism of the Women´s Movement"). The insights and aims of her theoretical work were also reflected in her stories ("Aus der Tiefe", 2 vols., 1892).

Edition: Ausgewaehlte kleinere Schriften, ed. by. W. v. Troll, 1914.

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