Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić

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Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić , Cyrillic Јованка Бончић-Катеринић , former Germanization: Jovanka Bontschits (born July 5, 1887 in Niš ; † 1966 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav architect. In 1913 she was the first woman to graduate from Darmstadt University of Technology .

Life and education

Bončić-Katerinić was born as the daughter of the Council of Cassation Michael Bončić (* 1848) and by Katharina, b. Petrovitsch (* 1862) born. She studied for seven semesters at the University of Belgrade before moving to what was then the Technical University of Darmstadt in the winter semester of 1909/10. She had previously completed an internship at the Serbian State Railways. In Darmstadt she studied architecture with a focus on building construction. After her intermediate diploma examination on April 28, 1911, which she passed with "fairly good", she received her diploma on July 18, 1913. In the exam she chose the focus on urban development and the special field of school buildings. The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung honored the award with a picture on its front page. With her husband, the graduate engineer Andrej Katerinić (born in Ukraine, died 1968 in Belgrade), whom she met while studying at the Technical University, she lived in Saint Petersburg , Kiev and from 1922 in Belgrade. In 1945 she retired.

Work and work

The “Kursalon” in Banja Koviljača
The “Banski Dvor” cultural center in Banja Luka

In the Yugoslav Ministry of Construction she headed the department for university construction and was responsible for numerous public projects from 1930 to 1941. Thus arose under their contribution beside a Kursalon and a bath house in Banja Koviljača (1929-32) and the Cultural Center Banski Dvor (Cyrillic: Бански двор) in Banja Luka (1930-38) and the University buildings for teacher training (1933) and veterinary medicine (begun 1939) in Belgrade.

Honors

In 2012, the city of Darmstadt's magistrate decided to name a street on the Lichtwiese campus of the Technical University of Darmstadt after her. The name was changed on October 15, 2013.

Sponsorship award

Since the winter semester 2011, the Department of Materials and Geosciences at the TU Darmstadt has been awarding the Jovanka -Bontschits Prize every year . It recognizes the research and academic achievements of women in materials and geosciences and promotes further scientific work.

literature

  • Vladimir Konjikušić: Bončić-Katerinić, Jovanka . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 485.
  • Ljubinka Trgovčević-Mitrović: Students from Serbia at German universities until 1914 , in: Dittmar Dahlmann, Milan Kosanović (ed.): German-Serbian relations from the Berlin Congress until today . International Symposium of the Michael Zikic Foundation Bonn, September 25 and 26, 2000, Bonn 2003, pp. 51–67
  • Uta Zybell, Verena Kümmel (Ed.): 100 years of studying women at the TU Darmstadt . Documentation for the exhibition, Darmstadt 2008, pp. 8–9, 20–21

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Emig: Women in Science. Documentation of the lecture series from the winter semester 1985/86 at the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1988, p. 45; Information in the enrollment documents in: TU Archive, inventory 102 No. 975. So also in: Ljubinka Trgovčević-Mitrović: Students from Serbia at German universities until 1914, in: Dittmar Dahlmann, Milan Kosanović (ed.): German-Serbian relations from Berlin Congress to this day. International Symposium of the Michael Zikic Foundation Bonn, September 25 and 26, 2000 , Bonn 2003, p. 60. From Vladimir Konjikušić: Bončić-Katerinić, Jovanka . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 485. is wrongly named as Belgrade as the place of birth
  2. ↑ tu-darmstadt.de: 100 years ago: Germany's first female engineer. online, accessed July 23, 2013
  3. ↑ Brigitte Emig: Women in Science. Documentation of the lecture series from the winter semester 1985/86 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1988, p. 45. In the literature she is sometimes referred to as the daughter of a Serbian Minister of Justice.
  4. ^ Eckhart G. Franz, Friedrich Battenberg: The Chronicle of Hesse. Dortmund 1991, p. 319
  5. ↑ Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung of August 3, 1913, illustration: tu-darmstadt.de: 100 years ago: Germany's first female engineer. online, accessed July 23, 2013
  6. ↑ Vladimir Konjikušić: Bončić-Katerinić, Jovanka . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 485. - Maskareli Draginja: O delatnosti architekte Jovanke Bončić-Katerinić ( about the work of the architect Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić ), online , accessed on July 23, 2013
  7. ↑ New addresses for the Lichtwiese ( memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 3, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intern.tu-darmstadt.de
  8. ↑ "Fräulein Ingenieur" Jovanka Bontschits , echo-online.de, July 19, 2013, online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 23, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Bončić-Katerinić, Jovanka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bontschits, Jovanka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Niš
DATE OF DEATH 1966
Place of death Belgrade