| Short name |
Regina Salomea Rusiecka Pilsztynowa |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Regina Salomea Rusiecka |
| Maiden name |
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| Married name |
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| Alternative name |
Regina von Pichelstein
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Regina Makowska
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| Date of birth |
1718 |
| Date of death |
1760 |
| Flourishing |
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| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
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| Place of death |
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| Lived in |
Turkey
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Poland
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| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
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| Bibliography |
Cf.
- Hawrysz, Magdalena. "Portret kobiety nowoczesnej w świetle pamiętnika ‘Proceder podróży i życia mego awantur’ Reginy Pilsztynowej” [A Portrait of a Modern Woman in the Light of Regina Pilsztynowa’s ‘My Life's Travels and Adventures’”]. In Tradycja a nowoczesność [Tradition and Modernity], edited by E. Woźniak, 583-594. Łódź: Archidiecezjalne Wydawnictwo Łódzkie, 2008.
- Konczacki, Janina M., and Kurt Aterman. “Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa, Ophthalmologist in 18th-Century Poland”. Survey of Ophthalmology. 47 (2002): 189-95.
- Maciejewska, Iwona. "Kobiecym piórem o miłości, małżeństwie i erotyce (Regina Salomea z Rusieckich Pilsztynowa, Elżbieta Drużbacka, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa)” [“Female Writings on Love, Marriage and Eroticism (Regina Salomea née Rusiecka Pilsztynowa, Elżbieta Drużbacka, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa)”]. In Kobieta epok dawnych w literaturze, kulturze i społeczeństwie, edited by Iwona Maciejewska, and Krystyna Stasiewicz, 213-23. Olsztyn: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski, Wydawnictwo Littera: 2008.
- Partyka, Joanna. "Kobieta oswaja męską przestrzeń. Polska lekarka w osiemnastowiecznym Stambule” [“A Woman Enters the Male Space: A Polish Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”]. In Pisarki polskie epok dawnych, edited by Krystyna Stasiewicz, 153-62. Olsztyn: Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna, 1998. |
| Provisional Notes |
MaOzNov12; 5thTrainingSchoolFeb2013
NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992
Born near Navahrudak (Polish: Nowogródek).
At the age of fourteen, her townsfolk parents married her off to Jacob Halpir, a Lutheran ophthalmologist, with whom she soon went to live in Istanbul where he treated his patients and she picked up some of his methods which she used for the rest of her life. That she thus acquired a profession which would successfully see her through her various tribulations is indeed extraordinary. When Dr Halpir left her and their infant daughter after three years of marriage, she was capable of successfully providing for herself and her child. Later she married a military man, Joseph Fortunatus de Pilsztyn (Pichelstein) who treated her badly and by whom she had two sons; finally she had a long-lasting affair with an unknown man, seven years younger than herself – an "amoratus" whom she never named but with the initials I.M.C.Z. It has been suggested that the initial “M” may stand for the surname of Makowski (Pollak 313), whose feminine variant in Polish would end in –ska.
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In 1760, in Istanbul (where a large Polish colony was centered around the court of the Polish ambassador) where she settled down as a recognized eye doctor, working also for the court harem, Mrs. Pichelstein composed her memoirs (now kept at the National Museum in Cracow, Poland), which were not published until 1957 (in Polish). The title is: My Life's Travels and Adventures (Polish: Proceder podróży i życia mego awantur).
Married (1732), divorced (1735), remarried, divorced, lived together with partner male.
Three children.
Christian (probably Roman Catholic).
Work suggests she was a travel writer. |