Wspomnienia i listy
Memoirs and Letters

Author(s): Izabela Moszczeńska
Contributor(s): Adam Fijałkowski (Editor), Magdalena Rzepka (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Psychology, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: pedagogy; history; Poland; turn of the 19th and 20th century; Warsaw; Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka; emancipation of women; Warsaw intelligentsia
Summary/Abstract: The first critical edition of "Memoirs and Letters", an important source for Polish history and the history of education by Izabela Moszczeńska-Rzepecka (1864-1941), who was an independence activist, patriot, pedagogue advocating the ideas of the New Education and supporting the emancipation of women and a pioneer of sexual education. Her life began in a manor house in Kuyavia, where patriotic insurgent traditions were cultivated, she received positivist education at a finishing school in Warsaw and joined the ranks of Warsaw insurgent intelligentsia (and imprisoned for her activity in this field). A social activist in the Second Polish Republic, she died in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. She raised two children on her own: Hanna Pohoska (1895-1953) was a historian of education and an associate professor at Warsaw University, Jan Rzepecki (1899-1983) was a colonel in the Polish Army. The grave of Izabela Moszczeńska at Warsaw Powązki Cemetery is engraved with her life motto: "Full of faith in homeland’s resurrection".

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