Rosika Schwimmer
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| Native name | Schwimmer Rózsa |
| Born |
September 11, 1877 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | August 3, 1948 (aged 70) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Known for |
suffragist women's rights advocate pacifist |
Rosika "Rózsa" Bédy-Schwimmer (best known as Rosika Schwimmer, September 11, 1877 – August 3, 1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist and female suffragist. She was one of the first world federalists, and served as one of the world's first female ambassadors from Hungary to Switzerland in 1918.
Rosika Schwimmer was born to a Jewish family in Budapest in Austria-Hungary. She studied music and languages but when family finances deteriorated in 1896, she began to work as a bookkeeper.
In 1897 she organized the Association of Hungarian Women Clerks and in 1904, Schwimmer founded the Hungarian Feminist Association (Hungarian: Feministák Egyesülete (FE)), along with other prominent feminists like Eugénia Miskolczy Meller. She helped to found Hungarian National Council of Women , and was a board member in the Hungarian Peace Society. In 1909, the Minister of the Interior appointed her to the governing board of child welfare.
In 1913, she became a corresponding secretary of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA). Schwimmer toured Europe with Carrie Chapman Catt to lecture on female suffrage. She also edited the magazine A nő (The Woman). In 1914 Schwimmer moved to London and worked as a correspondent of various European newspapers and press secretary for IWSA. When World War I broke out, she could not return home and began to agitate for the end of hostilities. In 1914, she toured the US to demand President Woodrow Wilson form a neutral conference to end the war. In 1915 she took part in the formation of the Woman's Peace Party.
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