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Milena Miladinović

Spouse Žarko Miladinović
Date of birth 1869
Date of death 1928
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Personal situation

Milena Miladinović was born in Vienna in 1869. She finished primary and secondary school there. She enrolled at university to study philosophy, but did not graduate.

She was of German origin.

She married Dr Žarko Miladinović. After her wedding, she moved to Ruma.

She died in Belgrade in 1928.

Place of birth Beč
Place of death Beograd
Marital status Married
Education School education

Professional situation

She started writing poems early, and her first poems were in German. Thanks to her husband, she learnt Serbian and started writing poetry in Serbian. She also started translating from German into Serbian and vice versa.

She translated folk poems from the Kosovo cycle into German. She translated around thirty Serbian folk poems into German and published them in Viennese magazines Parlamentär and Ost-Westliche Rundschau. She collaborated with the following Serbian magazines: Bosanska vila (The Bosnian Fairy), Nova Iskra (The New Spark), Srpska Domaja (Serbian Homeland), Brankovo kolo (Branko's Circle), as well as calendars Orao (The Eagle), Kosovo, etc. starting from 1901.

Zmaj was a good friend of hers. He translated one poem she wrote from German into Serbian and published it in the magazine Srpska Domaja. Milena Miladinović wanted to repay him, so she erected a monument in his honour in Ruma.

Profession(s) and other activities poet and translator

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