Draga Ljocic-Milosevic

Draga Ljočić Milošević (22 February 1855 – 5 November 1926) was a Serbian physician and feminist. She became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. She worked as a medical assistant in the army and became the first Serbian female doctor in medicine. She was also a leading figure within the newly founded Serbian women's rights movement. She was 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.

Biography Draga Ljočić Milošević was a Serbian physician and feminist. She was born on 22 February 1855, in Sabac in Serbia. Her brother Đura Ljočić had graduated from the university two years earlier. Due to her advocacy for equal pay, she was also a leading figure within the newly founded Serbian women's rights movement. Ljočić also translated works in the field of pediatrics; she translated from Russian Dr. Marija Manasejina's book Raising Young Children, to improve mother's knowledge of how to raise their babies. She died in Belgrade on 5 November 1926.

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