Margit Slachta

✶September 18, 1884

†January 6, 1974

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About their life

Margit Slachta, SSS was a Hungarian Catholic religious sister, social activist, politician, and member of parliament of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920 she was the first woman to be elected to the Diet of Hungary, and in 1923 she founded the Sisters of Social Service, a Catholic religious institute for women.

Hungarian activist, editor (1884-1974)

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Biography from the article Margit Slachta on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.