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Divna Veković

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Divna Veković (or Vékovitch) (1886–1944) was the first female medical doctor in Montenegro. She was born in Lužac, a village in the municipality of Berane.[1] She completed her medical degree at the Sorbonne in 1907. [2] She was a physician at the Salonika front during World War I.[3] 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 the French language (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.

She continued her work as a medical doctor until her death before the end of World War II.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Divna Veković". Council of Europe. Women Writers Route. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  2. ^ "Prva ljekarka u Crnoj Gori – Divna Veković (1886-1994) | MedicalCG Magazin o zdravlju i medicini". medicalcg.me (in Bosnian). 18 August 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  3. ^ Defiant trajectories : Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes. Forum of Slavic Cultures.
  4. ^ Martinović M.; Jokanović V. (2006). "[Divna Veković (1886–1944)--the first woman physician in Montenegro]". Med Pregl. 59 (7–8): 391–3. doi:10.2298/mpns0608391m. PMID 17140043.