Milena Mrazović

Milena Theresia Preindlsberger von Preindlsperg (née Mrazović; 28 December 1863 – 20 January 1927) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, writer, and piano, composer.

She was the first journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the author of the first classical compositions on its soil but remains best known for the travel books she wrote during her long journeys.

[3] She moved with her family in 1878 to Banja Luka, where her father was appointed an administrative officer, several weeks after Bosnia-Herzegovina was occupied by Austria-Hungary.

[3] A pianist and composer,[3] Mrazović took part in the first concert of classical music in Bosnia-Herzegovina, held in Banja Luka in May 1881 in honor of the birthday of Crown Princess Stephanie.

[6] In September 1889, the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina granted Mrazović permission to continue publishing the Bosnische Post as her fiancé's heir.

[2] The international media hailed her success in 1894, when the Bosnische Post celebrated its tenth anniversary, emphasizing that women in Bosnia-Herzegovina normally took no part in public life.

[4] In 1893–94, Mrazović built an apartment block with newspaper offices and a printing shop on the ground floor in Cukovicgasse (today's Muvekita street).

[3] The government commissioner for Sarajevo, Lothar Berks, described Mrazović as an "unbearable, quarrelsome, scheming woman, who is under the influence of hideous delusions and is usually in a more or less hysterical condition, regarding the manifold, sometimes crucial, questions involved in important matters of state."

[3][4] She continued writing books and articles for European newspapers, covering important events such as the Annexation Crisis, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the trial of Gavrilo Princip.

[2] After the World War II, one of Mrazović's two sons brought his mother's ethnographic collection to Bosnia and Herzegovina and donated it to the National Museum in Sarajevo, as she had wished.