Mara Kinkel

Mara Koseva Kinkel (1885–1960)[1] was a Bulgarian sociologist, writer and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1945.

Mara Kinkel
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1945–1946
Personal details
Born1885
Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Died1960

Biography

Kinkel was born in Gabrovo in 1885.[2] She worked as a teacher in villages near Gorna Oryahovitsa and became a member of the socialist movement.[2] She went to Switzerland, where she studied literature and sociology in Geneva, completing her studies in 1914.[2] While in Switzerland, she met several Russian revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya.[2] She married professor Ivan Kinkel,[1] and the couple lived in Russia from 1917 to 1922.[2] She later wrote books on Lenin and Georgi Dimitrov.

Following World War II, she was a candidate in the 1945 parliamentary elections, the first in which women could stand. She was elected to the National Assembly, becoming one of the first group of women in parliament.[3]

References
  1. Nikolay Nemovsky (2013) "Ivan Kinkel's (1885–1945) theory of economic development", European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
  2. Boian Grigorov (1970) Владимир Илич Ленин и Българската комунистическа партия, p501
  3. Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, pp53–54


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