Draga Ljočić

Draga Ljočić
Ljočić, c. 1885
Born	(1855-02-22)22 February 1855 Šabac, Principality of Serbia
Died	5 November 1926(1926-11-05) (aged 71) Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Occupation(s)	physician, political activist

Draga Ljočić Milošević (1855–1926) was a Serbian physician, socialist,^[1] and feminist. In 1872, she became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, she worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant. In 1879, she graduated and thereby became the first Serbian female doctor in medicine. She was permitted to practice in Serbia in 1881. She was also a leading figure within the newly founded Serbian women's rights movement.^[2] Đura Ljočić, one of the earliest members of the People's Radical Party, was her brother.

She was also the first female doctor in the Balkan Wars and the Great War, and one of only a dozen women working as doctors in Europe at that time.^[3]

Tribute

On 22 February 2016, Google Doodle commemorated her 161st birthday.^[4]

Dissertation

• Draga Ljocic: Ein Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Fibromyome des Uterus, Zürich 1878, OCLC 610734169(Dissertation Universität Zürich 1878, 115 Seiten).

See also

• Maria Fjodorovna Zibold

References

1. Haan, Francisca de (2006). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 290-291.
2. de Haan, Francisca; Daskalova, Krasimira; Loutfi, Anna (2006). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN 963-7326-39-1. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
3. "Draga Ljočić - prva srpska lekarka i pionirka borbe za prava žena u Srbiji". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian (Latin script)). 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
4. "Draginja Ljočić Milošević's 161st Birthday". 22 February 2016.