French philosopher, feminist and novelist (1872–1942)
Léontine Zanta (14 February 1872 – 15 June 1942) was a French philosopher, feminist and novelist. One of the first two women to gain a doctorate in France, and the first to do so in
philosophy, Zanta "was an intellectual celebrity in her day, active in journalism and in the feminist movement of the 1920s."[1]
Life
Zanta was born in
Mâcon. Her doctoral thesis, defended in May 1914, was on the 16th-century revival of
Stoicism. She never secured a position in higher education, and became a journalist and writer, publishing several novels.[1]
Robert Garric, "Introduction", in Teilhard de Chardin, Letters to Léontine Zanta, trans. Bernard Wall. London: Collins, 1969. [ISBN missing]
Henri Maleprade, Léontine Zanta, vertueuse aventurière du féminisme, Paris: Rive droite, 1997. [ISBN missing]
Annabelle Bonnet, Léontine Zanta – Histoire oubliée de la première docteure française en philosophie, Préface de Geneviève Fraisse, Paris: L'Harmattan, Collection logiques sociales, 2021. [ISBN missing]