Joanna Narutowiczow

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Joanna Narutowiczowa, de domo Billewiczówna (born March 21, 1868 in Kliszy on Żmudzi, died 19 February 1948 in Warsaw) - Lithuanian educational activist, wife of Stanisław Narutowicz, nephew Gabriel Narutowicz. Curriculum vitae

She came from the Lithuanian Billevich family, as did Józef Piłsudski's mother. She graduated in philosophy at the University of Zurich. After graduation, she returned to Lithuania, and in 1888 she married Stanisław Narutowicz. In the years 1891-99 and 1904-07 she worked as a teacher at a folk school in Swidnica, where she lectured in Lithuanian.

In 1907, she moved to Telsz, where she became head of the Lithuanian pro-grammar school.

During the First World War she went to emigrate to the Smolensk Governorate.

In the years 1926-35 she was the director of the Polish language gymnasium. Adam Mickiewicz in Kaunas, appointed for this position by the Polish "Pochodnia". Protector of Polish, female academic corporation "Znicz" founded in Kaunas in 1930.

During World War II she lived in Kaunas, helping to hide the Jews there. In 1945 she came to Warsaw, buried in the Powązki cemetery.

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