Ana Conta-Kernbach was a Romanian teacher, writer, and women's rights activist.
22 Facts About Ana Conta-Kernbach
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was one of the founders in 1918, of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women in Iasi.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was honored twice by the government of Romania with the Educational Work Reward Medal, first class, for both primary and secondary education.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach is regarded as one of the pioneering teachers who helped develop the educational system and pedagogic theory in Romania.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach Conta was born on 5 November 1865 in Targu Neamt in the Romanian United Principalities to Marioara and Grigore Conta.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was the next to last sibling in the family of ten children, which included her older brother Vasile Conta, who would become a philosopher and politician.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach's family was originally from the commune of Bodestii-Precistei, where several generations had served in the priesthood of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach's father was hired in 1864 to serve at the Barboi Monastery in Iasi, where the family moved soon after her birth.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach's mother died when Conta was young, and her brother Vasile became an important influence on her sense of responsibility to address societal issues.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach encouraged her musical ability and she became an accomplished pianist.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach completed the seven-year curricula within five years and graduated in 1883.
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In 1893, Ana Conta-Kernbach went to Paris, without her husband to continue her education.
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That year, at the request of the Ministry of Education, Ana Conta-Kernbach produced two reports evaluating vocational education available to girls in France.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was named by the Ministry of Education as the director of the Scolii Normale de Aplicatie and worked to modernize the professionalism of teachers with pedagogic training at both schools.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was one of the first Romanian delegates sent by the government to international scientific meetings.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach participated in the International Congress of Women's Institutions, held in Paris in 1899, the International Congress of Pedagogy, hosted in Brussels in 1911, as well as other events hosted in Geneva and Nuremberg.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach was awarded the medal Rasplata Muncii pentru Invatamant first class, for primary education and later the same award for secondary education.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach proposed that women be allowed to become citizens in their own right, and supported women's suffrage, co-founding the Asocitia pentru emanciparea civila si politica a femeilor romane in Iasi in 1918, along with Calypso Botez, Maria Baiulescu, Elena Meissner, Ella Negruzzi, Izabela Sadoveanu, Ortansa Satmary, and Olga Sturdza.
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In 1920, Ana Conta-Kernbach petitioned the legislature to grant political rights for women who had demonstrated their public service, participated in the war, or who were wives and mothers of soldiers who fought in the conflict.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach died from heart disease on 13 December 1921 in Iasi and was buried in the city's Eternitatea Cemetery.
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In 1925, when Adela Xenopol established Revista scriitoarei, Ana Conta-Kernbach was one of the featured feminists, whose writings were profiled in the influential journal.
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Ana Conta-Kernbach is remembered as one of the pioneers who helped systematize Romanian pedagogy practices and education.