Christinie Touaillon

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Overview

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Christine Touaillon (née Auspitz) born Iglau, Bohemia, Austro-Hungary February 27, 1878 (d. 1928).  Austrian philology professor; feminist. Vice-President, WILPF; leader of internationalist International Federation of Women. Daughter of a major general. Keynote speaker, calling for end to war and for negotiated peace, 1917.

Quotations

“I felt that that the International Federation of Women knows no difference and hostility between nations.” (Christine van Oerttzen, Science, Gender and Internationalism, p. 46; photo women.mur)