Desanka Kovačević-Kojić

Desanka Kovačević-Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Десанка Ковачевић-Којић; 3 October 1925 – 13 August 2022) was a Serbian medievalist, specialized in the medieval history of Serbia and Bosnia, and in particular urban history, trade and commercial relations.

Desanka Kovačević-Kojić studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, graduating in 1950.

During the 1960s, she spent a year with Radovan Samardžić in Paris, specializing in history at the seminary of Fernand Braudel.

She has published several monographs and more than a hundred studies and articles in Serbian and French.

She was a member of ANUBiH, and after moving to Belgrade in 1993, she was inducted into the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.