Marie Popelin

Marie Popelin was a Belgian feminist, lawyer and political campaigner. Popelin worked with Isabelle Gatti de Gamond in the development of womens education and, in 1888, became the first Belgian woman to receive a doctorate in law.

Marie Popelin was born in Schaerbeek near Brussels into a middleclass family. One of her brothers was a doctor, another an army officerMarie Popelin was well educated by the standards of the time and place. Along with her sister Louise, she worked with feminist educator Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, teaching in Brussels from 1870 to 1875. Disagreements with Gatti led to the sisters moving to Mons to run a new school for girls there, established with Masonic assistance. In 1882, Marie Popelin returned to Brussels to head the middle school in nearby Laeken, but was removed from her post the following year.

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