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| Eustahia Arsic, first woman writer in Serbia |
The first female Serbian writer after Jefimija and the first woman from Serbia who printed her literary works.
She was born into a family of Cinčić in Irig, on 14th March 1776, and died in Arad on 17th February 1843.
There are no documents available about her schooling, but it is known that she was well educated. She read Rajić, Obradović, Stojković, Kengelc and Julinc. She was subscribed to all the works of Dositej Obradovic early in the 19th century in Arad, where she lived with her parents. Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von Pirch, in his book "Traveling trough Serbia" mentions that she has translated Voltaire, Wieland and James Thomson.
