Medicine · XX century · Blažuj (Sarajevo)
Berta Bergman
1892 — 1945 · lived 53 years
The first Bosnian woman to finish high school and one of the first female physicians/doctors in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Bergman was born in Blažuj near Sarajevo and graduated from the Mostar Gymnasium in 1912. She attained her medical degree in Vienna in 1918. She worked all over the country, most notably in Banja Luka and Mostar where she served as head of the local children's polyclinic.
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