Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja

• Name — Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja • Born — 6 July 1828 • Birthplace — Bukovac, Petrovaradin, Austrian Empire • Died — 25 July 1878 • Place of death — Belgrade, Principality of Serbia • Occupation — Poet

Raised in the family of the priest Vasilije Stojadinović, she was among rare Serbian women in the early 19th century who could read and write both in Serbian and German languages. She started writing at a very young age and published her first poem Mladi Srbin (The Young Serb) in Srbski narodni list (Serbian National Journal) in 1845. Her first book of poems was published in 1850. Written in 1854, her journal U Fruškoj gori (In Fruška Gora) represents a unique collection of fairy tales, beliefs, sayings, and customs. The peak of her public activity was going to Vienna in 1850 at the invitation of Vuk Karadžić, who used her materials for his work.

As her fame spread beyond the confines of Serbian culture of the Austrian Empire, Prince Mihailo Obrenović would invite her to court when she came to Belgrade and Vienna-based anthropologist and poet Johann Gabriel Seidl devoted a poem to her. She corresponded extensively with writers Đorđe Rajković (1825–1886), Ljubomir Nenadović, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and his daughter Wilhelmine/Mina, Božena Němcová, and Ludwig August von Frankl. In 1891, an almanach Die Dioskuren was issued in Vienna by Ludwig von Frankl with a collection of letters written by Milica Stojadinović.