Novi Sad’s most famous women

Women have always been important to Novi Sad, and the city’s female intellectuals are remembered with especially deep respect. Some of them are responsible for today’s cultural and scientific institutions. Each one of these unique personalities will introduce you to the very urban tissue of the city, the places which overlap with their lives. They have been disputed, ignored, and unjustly forgotten. If you would like to find out more about their lives and work, sightseeing tour ‘Novi Sad from a female point of view’.


Mileva Maric Einstein (1875-1948) as a talented mathematician interested in music was the first serbian woman to have studied at ETH Zurich. There she met her future husband, Albert Einstein, and dedicated herself to his welfare and his work. Interestingly, mathematics was not Albert Einstein's strong suit – but it was hers. Many researchers concur that Mileva helped her husband with complex mathematical formulas regartding the theoty of relativity. In one of his letters to Mileva, Einstein referred to the theory as a joint project. Their sons, Albert and Edward, were christended in the Nikolajevska church in Novi Sad. However, after her husband left her, Mileva spent her old age in sickness, forgotten in her parents' Novi Sad house at 20 Kisacka Street. The house bears the plaque, ‘Albert Einstein, the creator of the theory of relativity, and his partner and wife Mileva Maric lived here from 1905 to 1907’.