Augusta Rozsypalová

Rozsypalová was born in Görkau in the Austrian Empire (now Jirkov, Czech Republic) in 1857. She trained to be a handicraft teacher in Louny. After working in Kutná Hora, she became a teacher in Blovice and then taught at the Eugenum Institute in Kladno and a school in Plzeň. She was a member of the Union of Christian Teachers and the Union of Catholic Teachers. Having also become involved in Catholic women's associations, she was one of the founders of the Women's Christian-Social Movement and was appointed editor of the Žena magazine in 1918.^[1]

Following the independence of Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I, in 1919 Rozsypalová was a founder member of the Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL) and was elected to its executive committee. The following year she was a ČSL candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in the parliamentary elections, and was one of sixteen women elected to parliament. In 1921, she became head of the Union of Catholic Women's Associations in Bohemia. She was elected to the Senate in the 1925 elections, but died before she could take her seat.^[1]