Paulina Matijević ( sr-Cyrl, Паулина Матијевић; 1861 - 1926) was a Serbian philanthropist. Paulina Lađević was born in

Karlovac Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Zagre ...

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, and married

Vladimir Matijević Vladimir Matijević ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Матијевић; 3 August 1854 – 7 September 1929) was a Serbian businessman and philanthropist. Biography He was born in Kordun's Gornji Budački near Krnjak, at the time in Austria-Hungar ...

in 1883. Matijević was one of the founders of the so-called The Krajina Society, a society of Serbian ladies who collected small charitable contributions every day, from which the first Serbian school in

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emerged. With her initiative, the Women's Charitable Cooperative ''Srpkinja'' was founded in Zagreb, from which the Serbian Girls' Boarding School also emerged, whose task was to educate young women.Petar V. Krestić, Srpsko privredno društvo „Privrednik“ (1897-1918), Istorijski institut i Službeni glasnik, Beograd, 2002 Matijević was a member of the

Privrednik Srpsko privredno društvo "Privrednik" ( sr-cyr, Српско привредно друштво "Привредник"; en, Serbian Business Association "Privrednik"), commonly referred to as Privrednik, is an organization of the Serb minority ...

Patronage.http://rih.iib.ac.rs/108/1/2016%20istorijske-sveske%201.pdf At the end of 1904, Privrednik expanded its activities to care for female children, thanks to the efforts of Matijević. She left all her property, 4,000 shares of the Serbian Bank in Zagreb, to Privrednik for the ongoing rise and advancement of poor Serbian youth. She died in

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