Katarina Milovuk

[1][2] Katarina Milovuk was appointed director of the then newly founded Women's Grande école in Belgrade in 1863.

This was the first institution of higher learning open to women in Serbia, and the only one until 1891: first a three-year program, it offered four years in 1866, five in 1879, and six in 1886, and mainly focused as a training college for female teachers within the national school system.

The society was primarily focused on humanitarian issues such as helping poor women and children, particularly war orphans.

In 1897, she applied to be enrolled in the voters' register and when refused, she launched an official complaint that was rejected with a 2:1 vote at the lower court.

[4] In 1913, speaking at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress in Budapest, she appeared in public for the last time less than two months before her death.