Gynecology, or what a girl needs to know

A XXI. It is natural for the European man of the twentieth century that girls receive the same education from primary school to university level and perform at the same level as boys. One hundred years earlier, this was only a dream of a few, and we had to fight for the construction and completion of girls' education. In the central city of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca in the XIX. At the end of the 19th century, there were also three denominational educational institutions, which could look back on several centuries, and accounted for a whole range of well-known teachers, from János Apáczai Csere to Samuel Brassai. But none of them were professional female educators or teachers. It is mentioned as an interesting fact in Brassai's biography that in the first decade of his career he worked as a maid and pianist in rural aristocratic castles, and it was then that he gained his great knowledge. De Gerando Antonina, who was active at the turn of the last century, can be considered the first institute-creating teacher in Cluj-Napoca. But the beginning of Gerando Antonina’s life is a real novel theme. On the maternal branch, he was the descendant of the first branch of the Teleki family in Székely, and his father was born from a modest French noble family of Lyon origin. This defined his further trajectory in several ways. Among the maternal ancestors was his grandmother, Count Karolina Brunswick (1782-1843), the sister of Teréz Brunswick, the founder of the first kindergarten in Hungary, opened in 1828. Karolina Brunswick married Count Imre Teleki (1771-1848) in 1805, with whom they then lived in retreat in the castle of Kővárhosszúfalu. The eccentric husband collected a large library and played the violin well. The marriage gave birth to three children: two girls and a boy.