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Kovalevsky, Sonja (1850 - 1891)

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Short name Kovalevsky, Sonja
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/34495126
First name Sonja
Birth name Kovalevsky
Married name
Alternative name Zofja Kowalewska — Sonia Kovalevskaya — Sophie Kowalevski
Date of birth 1850
Date of death 1891
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Sex Female
Place of birth Moscow
Place of death Stockholm
Lived in Sweden , Germany , Russia
Place of residence notes
Unknown photographer, portrait of Sonja Kovalevsky, 1888.
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Kovalevsky, Sonja was ...
related to Leffler, Anne Charlotte
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Kampen för lyckan (Leffler & Kovalevsky) (1887) 0 0
Systrarna Rajevskij (1889) 4 0
Nigilistka (1892) 3 0
Vera Voronzoff (1892) 4 0
Efterskörd (1893) 2 0
Souvenirs d'enfance (1895) 0 0
Wspomnienia z dzieciństwa (Childhood Memories) 1 1
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Circulations of Kovalevsky, Sonja, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Kovalevsky, Sonja, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
"Litteratur- och konstnotiser" (Literature and art notices) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1883 -
"Lärda kvinnor" Learned women Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1884 -
"Sophia Kowalewski" Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1884 comments on person
"Stockholms högskola och kvinnosaken" Stockholm university college and the womens movement Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1884 comments on person
"Rainen tieteen alalla" Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1884 comments on person
"Lärda kvinnor" learned women Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1884 -
"En rik och frisinnad students testamente" (a rich and broad-minded student's will) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"De Skandinaviska länderna" (The Scandinavian countries) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"Från andra land" (From other countries) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"Utlandet" (foreign countries) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"Från fremmande land" (from foreign countries) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
Helsingistä. Kirje Tukholmasta About Helsinki. A letter from Stockholm Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"Finlands prestestånd hedrar sig" The clergymen of Finland honour themselves Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1885 -
"Från Skandinavien" From Scandinavia Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1886 -
Unknown photographer, portrait of Sonja Kovalevsky, 1888. 1888 is portrait of
Das Buch der Frauen. Zeitpsychologische Porträts The Book of Women. Psychological portraits. Mohr, Laura 1895 is biography of
Slovenske pesnikinje Slovenian female poets Govekar, Fran 1897 -
Književnost in umetnost Literature and art [unknown journalist, female] 1897 -
Ruščina, ruska literatura in drugo Russian Language, Russian Literature and Other Lah, Ivan 1912 -

MENTIONED IN:
- Golitsyn, Slovar', 1892
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992
- McFadden, Golden Cables: Matrix, 189

Cf. Laura Marholm, Das Buch der Frauen (see works)

Mathematician and novelist. First woman in northern Europe to be appointed to a full professorship.

KLK 1904

MENTIONED IN:
- Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.174ss: women addressing women’s questions