Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education, edited by Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy, presents thirteen portraits of Hungarian women born before 1945, all trailblazers in their scholarly or scientific fields. The book offers a bird’s eye view of the attainments reached and challenges faced by exceptional academic or intellectual women, making visible careers in the disciplines of education and pedagogy, history and archaeology, astronomy, medicine, philosophy of art and musicology, mineralogy, botany, mathematics, chemistry and biochemistry.
The volume’s list of pioneer Hungarian women in science and education includes Terézia Brunszvik, Blanka Teleki, Zsófia Torma, Berta Degenfeld Schomburg, Vilma Hugonnai, Sarolta Steinberger, Margit Genersich, Valéria Dienes, Mária Dudich Vendl, Vera Csapody, Rózsa Péter, Margit Prahács and Ilona Banga.