Mina Karadžić

[1] She was born in Vienna, as the seventh child of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and the Viennese Ana Maria Kraus.

From an early age she received comprehensive education, beginning with reading and writing in German language, and continuing with French, Italian, Serbian, and English.

[2] She studied visual arts with the Austrian painter Friedrich Schilcher, as well as in various galleries in Vienna, Venice, Dresden, and Berlin.

In 1854 Karadžić published Volksmarchen der Serben, a German translation of Serbian folk tales and proverbs collected by her father Vuk, with the introduction by Jacob Grimm.

In 1859, she gave birth to their son Janko Vukomanović and lost her husband to illness when the child was three months old.