Hamida Javanshir
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Hamida Javanshir in the 1890s
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| Born |
January 19, 1873 Kahrizli, near Agjabadi (in present-day Azerbaijan) |
| Died | February 6, 1955 (aged 82) Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Education | Homeschooled |
| Spouse(s) | Ibrahim bey Davatdarov (†1901) Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (†1932) |
| Children | Mina Davatdarova Muzaffar Davatdarov Midhat Mammadguluzadeh Anvar Mammadguluzadeh |
Hamida Ahmad bey qizi Javanshir (Azerbaijani: Həmidə Cavanşir) (19 January 1873 – 6 February 1955) was an Azerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist. Her second marriage was to writer and journalist Jalil Mammadguluzadeh.
Born on her family's ancestral estate in the village of Kahrizli, Hamida Javanshir was the eldest child of Ahmad bey Javanshir (1828–1903), an Azeri historian, translator and officer of the Russian Imperial army. She was the great-great-grandniece of Ibrahim Khalil Khan, the last ruling khan of Karabakh. Hamida and her younger brother were educated at home; when she was nine, a family of Russian tutors came to live with them to guide their education. By age 14, she was familiar with European and Islamic literature, and spoke Russian and French fluently.
In 1889 Hamida Javanshir married a Barda-native, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim bey Davatdarov. They settled in Brest-Litovsk (in present-day Belarus). Soon their two children, Mina and Muzaffar, were born. Javanshir took ballroom dance lessons and studied German and Polish. In 1900 the family moved to Kars, where Davatdarov was appointed commander of a military fortress. A year later he died, leaving his 28-year-old wife a widow; her wish to study medicine in Moscow seemed unrealizable.
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