Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Prename: | Marie |
Surname: | Monod |
Name of birth: | Chavannes |
Birthday: | 1875 |
Place of birth: | Lyon |
Date of death: | 1967 |
Married since: | 1902 |
Married to: | Octave Monod |
Profession husband: | Physician |
Children: | 2 (Noel, born 1911; Marie-Laure, born 1913) |
Education: | Lycée Adgar Quintet, Lyon; university studies (initially English, German, later geography, history) in Lyon and Paris; fails twice to achieve the *agrégation* to teach at high school level |
Career: | Historical studies in Lyon; contributes to a bibliography of the history of Lyon and the publication of Lambert d’Harpigny’s memoirs, specializes in the life and work of the Comtesse d’Agoult; 1919 moves to Paris; until 1939 editor of the Association Française des Femmes Diplômées des Universités (AFFDU) bulletin; principal author of the *International Glossary of Academic Terms* published by the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) in 1939 |
Memberships: | 1920 founding member, treasurer, and 1923–33 president of the Société Nationale Féminine de Rapprochement Universitaire (from 1977 AFFDU); IFUW delegate; 1932–36 IFUW vice president, IFUW representative at the World Disarmament Conference |
Biographical literature: | Geneviève Poujol, *Un féminisme sous tutelle. Les protestantes françaises, 1810–1960* (Paris: Editions de Paris, 2003), 237; Evelyne Diebolt (ed.), *Dictionnaire biographique: Militer au XXe siècle: Femmes, féminismes, églises et société* (Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2009), 241–2 |