Dobrila Glavinić Knez Milojković

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Dobrila Glavinić Knez Milojković (1900–1987) was a Serbian journalist and humanitarian worker. She was born in Belgrade into a family with public-service ties: her father, Dobroslav Knez Milojković, was a state chemist and writer, and her mother Kosara was also from Belgrade. After her mother died young, she grew up with her paternal aunt and her husband, a state counsellor, and she was close to the writer Jelena Dimitrijević. She finished school in Belgrade and high school in Switzerland, studying German, French and Italian, and she also studied music and painting in Lucerne. After returning to Serbia, she married Milan Glavinić in 1923.

Milojković worked as secretary of the Princess Ljubica society, focusing on restoring Serbian shrines. She helped with the construction of the House of Mercy and a church in Stimlje, and supported the Princess Ljubica society in Aleksinac and church projects in Kosovo and Ferizaj. In 1923 she organized an exhibition of her art and donated the proceeds to a student shelter in Stimlje.

She held many leadership roles in women’s organizations, including president of Miss Serbian Sisters’ Circle, secretary and vice president of the Yugoslav Women’s Union in Belgrade, and vice president of the Board of Girls for Education and Protection of Children. She was active in education, child protection and other social groups, such as Matica, the Sokol movement, and organizations for mothers, students, and animals. The Belgrade Historical Archive holds photographs she took at social events. Milojković received the Order of St. Sava and an honorary diploma from a Russian Imperial Army and Navy veterans’ association in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.