Anka Obrenović
Princess Anka Obrenović (later Anka Konstantinović, Serbian Cyrillic: Анка Обреновић; 1 April 1821 – 10 June 1868 [29 May o.s.]) was a member of the Serbian royal Obrenović dynasty as the niece of the dynasty's founder Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia. She was also a society leader and writer whose translations in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a woman to be published in Serbia. She was the inspiration for a poem by renowned Croatian poet Antun Mihanović, who had wished to marry her when she was 16 and he 41. In 1860, she established one of the first Serbian salons in her home in Belgrade. She was also known as "Anka pomodarka" ("Anka the fashionable").
Anka Obrenović | |
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Princess of Serbia | |
Born | 1 April 1821 Serbia |
Died | 10 June 1868 (aged 47) Belgrade, Serbia |
Spouse | Alexander Konstantinović |
Issue | Alexander Konstantinović Katarina Konstantinović Simeona Lakhovari (illegitimate) |
House | House of Obrenović |
Father | Jevrem Obrenović |
Mother | Thomanija Bogičević |
Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
Occupation | writer, society leader |
She was assassinated alongside her first cousin Prince Michael III of Serbia, who was the ruling prince of Serbia at the time.