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Staka Skenderova
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Born
| c. 1831
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Died
| 26 May 1891 (aged 60?61)
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Resting place
| Holy Archangels Cemetery, Sarajevo
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Staka Skenderova
(c. 1831 ? 26 May 1891) was a
Bosnian
teacher, social worker, writer and folklorist.
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She is credited with establishing
Sarajevo's
first school for girls on 19 October 1858.
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The following year, she became the first published woman author in modern Bosnia.
Life
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Skenderova was born in 1831 in
Sarajevo
to parents from
Prijepolje
in
Sandzak
. Her older brother
sewed
for the
Ottoman Army
, and Skenderova learned the Turkish language at a young age and taught herself to write.
Skenderova, by permission of the
Ottoman
authorities, was allowed to open the first school for girls in Sarajevo in 1858. She was also the first woman teacher in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
She eventually decided to become a nun. Since Bosnia at the time had no
Serbian Orthodox
female monastery, she was ordained as an
Eastern Orthodox
nun in
Jerusalem
in 1870.
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Death
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Skenderova died in May 1891. While she was enjoying some entertainment in
Ilid?a
, a horse-drawn carriage ploughed into the crowd and Skenderova was severely wounded.
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She was cared for by a friend,
Paulina Irby
, but died of her injuries soon after. Irby arranged the funeral and Skenderova was buried in Sarajevo.
Skenderova was featured in the multi-media ?eneBiH project, devised by activists and scholars in Bosnia to highlight the achievements of women in the country's culture and history. She is also one of the principal subjects of the essay collection
No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history
, by the British-Kosovan writers Elizabeth Gowing and
Robert Wilton
.
Works
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- Ljetopis Bosne, 1825?1856
("The Bosnian Chronicle, 1825?1856", 1859)
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