Maga Magazinović

Maga Magazinović (1882–1968) was a librarian and journalist, the first woman who brought modern dance to Serbia and fundamental struggle for gender equality.

[2] She was the first woman journalist in Politika newspaper where she wrote articles on rhythm and forms of physical and spiritual education of youth, especially young women.

[3][4] For forty years Maga was professor of philosophy, German and Serbian language in the First female gymnasium.

Her mother Stana, born Isailović, was from Derventa, Bosnia, while on her father's side, their original name was Smiljanić (before it curiously morphed into Magazinović), and they hailed from Metković.

She is one of the principal subjects of the essay collection No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history, by the British-Kosovan writers Elizabeth Gowing and Robert Wilton.