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.
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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.
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Biography Draga Ljočić Milošević was a Serbian physician and feminist. She was born on 22 February 1855, in Sabac in Serbia. She graduated from the Belgrade Lyceum in 1872, and that same year became the first Serbian woman to be accepted at the University of Zürich in Switzerland, where she studied medicine. Her brother Đura Ljočić had graduated from the university two years earlier. During the war between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, Ljočić worked as a medical assistant in the army and received the grade of a Lieutenant. Returning to her studies afterwards, she graduated in 1879 and thereby became the first Serbian female doctor in medicine. Ljočić studied surgical gynecology under F. Frankenhäuser, and her dissertation was on the surgical treatment of uterine fibromyomas. Gaining permission to practice was not easy. Ljočić requested that a licence be issued based on her university qualifications, as would have been done for her male colleagues, but her requests were refused several times. Eventually, after the intercession of Queen Natalia and political leader Stojan Bošković, a commission was appointed to examine Ljočić on medical theory and practice. The commission granted her a licence and she was permitted to practice in Serbia in…
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Tribute On 22 February 2016, Google Doodle commemorated her 161st birthday.
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Dissertation Draga Ljocic: Ein Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Fibromyome des Uterus, Zürich 1878, OCLC 610734169(Dissertation Universität Zürich 1878, 115 Seiten).
