Marija Ilić Agapova

Marija Ilić Agapova (14 August 1895 – 13 March 1984) was a Serbian jurist, translator, librarian, civil rights activist and the first director of the Belgrade City Library.She received a Middle-European Ph.D. just like Ivo Andrić and other intellectuals of that time who studied in Austro-Hungary, Germany and Italy.Immediately after the Belgrade liberation she was fired because she kept working and governing the cultural institutions of the city during the German occupation (1941-1944), and was retired in 1947.She continued translating Russian and Italian and worked part-time as a foreign languages professor in the College of Diplomatic and Journalistic Vocational Studies, and also taught courses of archivists.Marija Ilić Agapova Award was established in 2001. and named after the first director of the Belgrade City Library.
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