Anastasia Golovina

Anastasia Golovina (Bulgarian: Анастасия Головина), also known as Anastassya Nikolau Berladsky-Golovina, and Atanasya Golovina (1850-1933) was the first Bulgarian female doctor.[1][2]

Portrait of Anastasia Golovina in 1885

Biography

She was born in Kishinev.[3] She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1878[2] where she defended her doctoral thesis "Histological examination of the walls of the arteries", which provokes the admiration of the scientist Jean Charcot. She was the first Bulgarian woman to graduate from a university.[4]

She worked in hospitals and schools, and was a specialist in internal diseases as well as a psychiatrist.[2] She had contacts with the progressive, revolutionary circles in Bulgaria and Russia in the middle of the 1870s.[5]

Further reading
  • Kalchev, K. (1996): “Dr Anastasia Golovina. Edna zabravena balgarka” [Dr. Anastasya Golovina. A Forgotten Bulgarian Woman]. Veliko Tarnovo.

References
  1. Kalchev, K. (1996): "Dr Anastasia Golovina. Edna zabravena balgarka" [Dr. Anastasya Golovina. A Forgotten Bulgarian Woman]. Veliko Tarnovo.
  2. Nazarska, Georgeta: Bulgarian women medical doctors in the social modernization of the Bulgarian nation state (1878-1944). In: Historical Social Research 33 (2008), 2, pp. 232-246. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168ssoar-191329 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. R.J. Crampton (1 February 2007). Bulgaria. OUP Oxford. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-0-19-151331-2.
  4. "Bulgarian women medical doctors in the social modernization of the Bulgarian nation state (1878-1944)". Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  5. Poglubko KA (2015-04-20). "[Not Available]". Asklepii. 1: 124–30. PMID 11636528.


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