Tatiana Grigorovici

Tatiana Grigorovici
Grigorovici in Vienna, c. 1905
Born
Tatiana Pisterman

(1877-03-31)31 March 1877
Died25 September 1952(1952-09-25) (aged 75)
EducationUniversity of Vienna; University of Bern
OccupationsEconomic theorist; social‑democratic activist
Known forAustromarxist scholarship, labour activism
Spouse
(m. 2025⁠–⁠1903)
ChildrenRadu Grigorovici

Tatiana Grigorovici (née Pisterman, 31 March 1877 – 25 September 1952), was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Marxist social democratic labour activist and economic theorist.

Biography

Grigorovici was born in Kamenetz-Podolski, then part of the Russian Empire, as the 14th child of a wealthy Jewish merchant family.[1]

Grigorovici was one of the few women of her generation who were able to complete a university degree. She went to both the University of Vienna in Austria-Hungary and the University of Bern in Switzerland, where she studied philosophy and political economy and discovered her fascination for Marxism, especially for Karl Marx's economic writings and Das Kapital.[1] Her doctoral thesis covered Marx and Ferdinand Lassalle and was titled Die Wertlehre bei Marx und Lassalle (1910).[2]

During her time living in Switzerland, Grigorovici maintained relations with Russian socialist organizations.[3]

Grigorovici's writings discussed of the concept of "socially necessary labour"[4] outlined the roles that women had within the process of progress[5] and promoted class struggle.[6]

In 1903, Grigorovici married Gheorghe Grigorovici, a Romanian medical school student in Vienna and fellow social democrat. In 1906, they moved to Czernowitz, in his native Bukovina.[1] Their only son, Radu Grigorovici, became a physicist.

References

  1. ^ a b c Ghit, Alexandra. "Tatiana Grigorovici: Ambiguities of a Social Democrat's Career". zarah-ceu.org. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b Dissertations, 1898-1938 (in German). Vol. 43. Universität Kiel. 1911. p. 81.
  3. ^ Petrescu, Constantin-Titel (2003). Socialismul în România 1835-6 Septembrie 1940 (in Romanian). Fundaţia Social-Democrată "Constantin-Titel Petrescu". p. 318. ISBN 978-973-0-03309-0.
  4. ^ Biblioteka studiów nad marksizmem (in Polish). Vol. 6. Ksia̜żka i Wiedza. 1965. p. 395.
  5. ^ Revista de istorie (in Romanian). Vol. 40. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România. 1987. p. 506.
  6. ^ Căpreanu, Ioan (1995). Bucovina: istorie și cultură românească (1775-1918) (in Romanian). Editura Moldova. p. 93. ISBN 978-973-572-021-6.