Zofia Sadowska

Zofia Anastazja Sadowska was a Polish medical doctor, feminist and social activist. She was the first woman and the first Polish woman to defend her doctorate at the Military Medical Academy in Saint-Petersburg. The press accused her of seducing female patients, organizing lesbian orgies with sadistic elements, running a lesbian brothel and administering drugs to women to make them dependent on her. She ran for the Warsaw City Council from the ninety-eighth place on the list of the National Electoral Committee, without obtaining a seat on the council. She had a reputation for being an excellent diagnostician. She also had not particularly secret or hidden love relationships with women before World War I. In 1924, she was accused of libel in the 2nd Criminal Division of the District Court at 15 Miodowa Street in Warsaw. It resulted in the decision of the court closing the door to the public on the first day of the trial. She died 7 March 1960 in Warsaw, at the age of 75. She is buried in the Warsaw National Cemetery. She wrote a book about her life, "Zofiania Sadowski: A Biography of a Feminist"