Helena Romer-Ochenkowska
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Vilnius, Russian Empire
Helena Romer-Ochenkowska | |
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| Born | 2 August 1875 Vilnius, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 March 1947 (aged 71) Toruń, Poland |
| Occupation | writer, journalist |
Helena Romer-Ochenkowska (2 August 1875 – 26 March 1947) was a Polish writer, playwright, opinion journalist, columnist and theatre critic. She also engaged in social and education activism, especially promoting amateur theatre in the Vilnius region.
Helena Romer was born on 2 August 1875, in Vilnius,[1] to painter Alfred Izydor Romer and aristocrat Wanda née Sulistrowska. Her great-grandfather was the politician Michał Józef Römer.[2] She received her education at a private girls' school in Kraków, then from 1897 gave classes in secret to the villagers of her estate in Karolinów. Later, she studied at the École des Hautes Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she wrote a thesis titled Immigration allemande en Russie et en Polgone. She married Henryk Ochenkowski, but the couple later separated.[1]
