Divna Veković

Divna Veković (or Vékovitch) (1886–1944) was the first female medical doctor in Montenegro, the first woman dentist, and the first to gain a doctoral degree. She was a physician at the Salonika front during World War I. Veković was also a humanitarian and a literary translator. She translated a well-known epic poem The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš from the Serbian language into French (Les lauriers de la montagne). She also translated other poems such as that of the Serbian poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

Biography Veković was born in Lužac, a village in the municipality of Berane in Montenegro in 1886. She was either the sixth or seventh child of her parents, Uros and Tola Vekovic.

Veković was also a humanitarian and a literary translator. She was the first to translate The Mountain Wreath (Gorski Viyénatz) from the Serbian language into French (Les lauriers de la montagne). The work is a well-known epic poem in Montenegrin literature written by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. Veković also translated other poems such as that of the Serbian poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. Her death is undocumented, and the date and location are not known, but it is thought to have occurred in 1941 or 1944, possibly in Zidani Most in Slovenia.