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Medicine · XX century · Sarajevo

Ljubica Jokanović Becić

1887 — 1972 · lived 85 years

First university educated female pharmacist in Bosnia & Herzegovina. She graduated pharmacy in 1914 from the University of Vienna. She returned to Sarajevo right after but realized that there was no prospect in Bosnia as a qualified pharmacist, in particular for women. She moved to Belgrade and then Bitola where she continued her work. During WW2 she saved numerous children from concentration camps and even adopted them.

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