Blanka Teleki

Countess Blanka Teleki de Szék (5 July 1806 – 23 October 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman, educator and women's rights activist.

[1] Blanka Teleki was born on 5 July 1806 in Satulung in what is now Romania to Count Imre Teleki de Szék (1782-1848) and Countess Karoline Brunswick von Korompa (1782-1843).

[1] She studied painting in München and Paris, and sculpture under István Ferenczy in Budapest.

After having published her ideas regarding women's education, she founded her own school for girls in Budapest in 1846.

After having served her sentence, she left Hungary for Paris and died there on 23 October 1862.