Mara Koseva Kinkel (1885–1960)[1] was a Bulgarian sociologist, writer and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1945.
Mara Kinkel | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 1945–1946 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1885 Gabrovo, Bulgaria |
| Died | 1960 (aged 74–75) |
Biography
editKinkel was born in Gabrovo in 1885.[2] She worked as a teacher in villages near Gorna Oryahovitsa and became a member of the socialist movement.[2] She went to Switzerland, where she studied literature and sociology in Geneva, completing her studies in 1914.[2] While in Switzerland, she met several Russian revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya.[2] She married professor Ivan Kinkel,[1] and the couple lived in Russia from 1917 to 1922.[2] She later wrote books on Lenin and Georgi Dimitrov.
Following World War II, she was a candidate in the 1945 parliamentary elections, the first in which women could stand. She was elected to the National Assembly, becoming one of the first group of women in parliament.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Nikolay Nemovsky (2013) "Ivan Kinkel's (1885–1945) theory of economic development", European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- ^ a b c d e Boian Grigorov (1970) Владимир Илич Ленин и Българската комунистическа партия, p501
- ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, pp53–54
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