Stefania Sempołowska

Stefania Sempołowska was a Polish educator, activist and writer.
She has been described as the leader of the movement for prisoners' rights in Poland during most of her lifetime.

Biography

Sempołowska was born on 1 October 1869 in the village of Polonisz, Poznań Voivodeship. At age 17 she passed the Teacher Patent at the Government Commission in Warsaw. Since then she was a teacher, supporter of education, kids' rights activist, journalist, and writer – she wrote many school books. Between the World Wars, she became a publicist who fought for equal educational opportunities. She was a member of the Democratic Education Society "Nowe Tory", co-editor of the teen magazine Z bliska i z daleka, and later the biweekly for kids and educators W słońcu. She died on 31 January 1944 in Warsaw, and her funeral took place on 2 February.