Milena Mrazović

Journalist, writer, and piano, composer. Mrazović is widely credited for introducing Bosnia and Herzegovina to the German-speaking public. She was the first female journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the author of the first classical compositions on its soil but remains best known for the travel books she wrote during her long journeys.

While horseback riding through remote mountain villages, Mrazović recorded Bosnian oral tradition and collected traditional costumes, building a valuable collection. She was one of the founders of the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In 1889 Mrazović became the first woman to be accepted into the Anthropological Society in Vienna. In 1896, at the invitation of the Ethnographic Society, she gave the first lecture about Bosnia-Herzegovina in Vienna. Her entire ethnographic collection was donated to the National Museum in Sarajevo.