Savka Subotić

[1][2] Subotić served as the first president of the Kolo Srpskih Sestara, (Circle of Serbian Sisters).

She was born into a wealthy and respectable family, of mixed Serb-Greek origin,[3] to father, Jovan Polit, and mother, Julijana Desančić.

With the outbreak of the Hungarian uprising and the Serbian-Hungarian war of 1848, the living conditions of her family significantly deteriorated, so it also affected her schooling.

[5] In Novi Sad, she founded the First Women's Cooperative, which helped poor girls to study for a teaching career, and other similar organizations.

[6] She knew Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer after meeting them in Vienna on numerous literary occasions.

She died in 1918, during World War I, when Novi Sad was being liberated by the Serbian Army, to become part of the Kingdom of Serbia.

[8] Immediately after Savka Subotić's death her life-long work would continue to manifest itself and solidify the role of women in the new society that was created on the rubble of World War I.