Grigorovici was born in
Kamenetz-Podolski, then part of the
Russian Empire, as the 14th child of a wealthy Jewish
merchant family. und
Lassalle'' (1910) Grigorovici was one of the few women of her generation who were able to complete a university degree. She went to both the
University of Vienna in Austria-Hungary and the
University of Bern in Switzerland, where she studied
philosophy and political economy and discovered her fascination for Marxism, especially for
Karl Marx's economic writings and
Das Kapital. Grigorovici's writings discussed of the concept of "socially necessary labour" outlined the roles that women had within the process of progress and promoted
class struggle. In 1903, Grigorovici married
Gheorghe Grigorovici, a Romanian medical school student in
Vienna and fellow social democrat. In 1906, they moved to
Czernowitz, in his native
Bukovina. Their only son,
Radu Grigorovici, became a
physicist. ==References==