Died 1926-02-24.
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Sofia Okunevska
Sofia Okunevska was a Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She was the first woman in Galicia to receive a gymnasium diploma and obtain a university education, and also the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary. She pioneered the use of radiation therapy for combating cancer in Galicia and Austria-Hungary. She organized courses for nursi…
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science · Ukrainian physician and feminist · physician · teacher · women's rights activist · writer · physicist · also Sofia Okunevska, Sofia Okunewska-Moraczewska, Okunevska
Born 12 May 1865 · Died 24 February 1926 · Q12135505
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1924· 1 entry
Under the leadership of Olena Stepaniv-Dashkevych
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1898· 1 entry
Okunevska gave birth to her daughter, Eva
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1897· 1 entry
As the first professional association of Ukrainian doctors
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1887· 2 entries
Debuted in literature with her socio-psychological story "Sand
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Okunevska and her cousin Kobrynska enrolled in a university in Switzerland
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1884· 1 entry
Okunevska obtained permission to take exams for the gymnasium course, and in 1885, which she brilliantly passed at the Lviv Academic Gymnasium, causing a sensation throughout Galicia
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1870· 1 entry
And Sofia was thenceforth raised by her aunt, Teofilie Okunevska-Ozarkevich
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-05-12.
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