!!!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).

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

!Literature
A. Enzenhofer, Zaertl. und sinnl. Strebungen. Zur 
Situierung von I. v. T.-B. in den Diskursen ueber Liebe und 
Sexualitaet in der 2. Haelfte des 19. Jh., master's thesis, 
Salzburg 1994.



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