Staka Skenderova

Teacher, social worker, writer and folklorist. She established Sarajevo's first school for girls on 19 October 1858 and also becoming the first female teacher in the country, where courses in mathematics, drawing, reading and learning old slavic language were taught. The following year, she became the first published female author in modern Bosnia & Herzegovina, authoring Ljetopis Bosne, 1825–1856 ("The Bosnian Chronicle, 1825–1856", 1859).