Katarina Bogdanović

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Memorial plaque on the birth house of Katarina Bogdanović in Trpinja

Katarina Bogdanović (born February 1, 1885 in Trpinja , † January 11, 1969 in Kragujevac ) was a Serbian philosopher , suffragette and journalist .

biography

Bogdanović was born in 1885 in the village of Trpinja near Vukovar . She studied philosophy and Serbian literature and was the first woman to graduate in philosophy from Belgrade University in 1910. She then attended lectures in Grenoble and Paris . In 1913 she returned to Serbia. She taught philosophy and Serbian literature in a school for 15 years until she became the director of a grammar school in Niš in 1928 . In 1932 she moved to Kragujevac.

She was arrested several times during the German occupation of Serbia . With the war diary , which she kept until the end of the Second World War , she left a testimony of the German conquest of Yugoslavia .

Katarina Bogdanović is considered to be one of the most outstanding feminists in what was then Yugoslavia. She belonged to the women's rights organization Društvo za prosvećivanje žene i zaštitu njenih prava (Society for Women's Enlightment and Protection of their rights), founded in 1919 . She was the founder and first editor of the feminist newspaper Ženski pokret (Women's Movement), which advocated women's suffrage and appeared for 18 years. Her work, essays and reviews have been published in many magazines.

Honors

A street in the district of Čukarica in Belgrade bears her name: Katarine Bogdanović .

Publications

  • Katarina Bogdanović: Izabrani život. Dnevnici, eseji, studije i kritike (Selected items from life. Diaries, essays, studies and criticism); Collection, editing and foreword Milan Nikolić. - Kragujevac: Književni klub (Literature Club) "Katarina Bogdanović": National Library "Vuk Karadžić" Bojnik, 1986.

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  • Ivana Pantelić, Jelena Milinković, Ljubinka Škodrić: Dvadeset žena koje su obeležile XX vek u Srbiji (Twenty women from the twentieth century in Serbia). Belgrade, NIN, 2013 (Italy: Arti grafiche Beprinters). ISBN 978-86-7474-027-9
  • Neda Božinović: Žensko pitanje u Srbiji: u XIX i XX veku . Devedesetčetvrta Belgrade 1996. ISBN 978-86-82449-09-6
  • Josif Milovuk, Teodor pl. Miković, Katarina Bogdanović, Spasoje Vukotić: Ličnosti: izbor zapisa o Trpinji , edited by Mirko Manojlović. Vukovar National Library , 1994. ISBN 978-86-82403-02-9
  • Tatjana Los: Katarina Bogdanović - prva žena filozof kod nas , Večernje novosti, March 30, 2016 (accessed July 14, 2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries , edited by Francisca DeHaan, Anna Loutfi, Central European University Press 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4 , p. 297 ( JSTOR , Project Muse )
personal data
SURNAME Bogdanović, Katarina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian philosopher, women's rights activist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Trpinja
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1969
Place of death Kragujevac