Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrova (17 July 1884 – 27 May 1933) was a Serbian and Bulgarian textile worker, labour activist, newspaper editor and the first Serbian proletarian poet.

Biography

Born on 17 July 1884 in the village of Saranovo in central Serbia, Ljubica Ivošević was the youngest child of Milovan and Milica Ivošević. When she was 16, she went to Smederevska Palanka with one of her brothers as a textile worker and joined the labour movement (Opšte zanatlijsko radničko društvo or General Artisan Workers Society).

In 1902 he moved to Bulgaria and became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists). After a short stay in Rousse she moved to Sliven. She married Georgi Dimitrov who came from a family of working class activists. He was a unionist and socialist and they had met in 1903 in Sliven. They moved to Sofia in 1904, where she began to work in a luxury sewing attire, and became a manager there. She published her poems in Bulgarian and Serbian left-wing stamp. From 1909 to 1912 she was the editor of the Bulgarian newspaper "Шивашки работник" ("Tailorin Worker"). From 1914, she became a member of the Central Women's Committee of the Bulgarian Narrow Socialists. In 1920, she was a Narrow Socialists envoy to the Yugoslav Communist Party Congress in Belgrade.

After the September Uprising of 1923 she emigrated with his husband to Austria. Ljubica had spent time in Vienna and she taught her husband German. Later they moved to the USSR. She lived permanently in the Moscow hotel "Lux", where she suffered a depression because of the constant travels of her husband and the inability to have a children. In 1927, already mentally ill, Ivoshevic was placed in a special sanatorium near the Soviet capital. The arrest of Dimitrov in 1933 in Germany on a charge of inciting the Reichstag has exacerbated her condition. On 27 May 1933 she committed suicide while her husband was in prison in Berlin.

Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrova (17 July 1884 – 27 May 1933) was a Serbian and Bulgarian textile worker, labour activist, newspaper editor and the first Serbian proletarian poet.

Biography

Born on 17 July 1884 in the village of Saranovo in central Serbia, Ljubica Ivošević was the youngest child of Milovan and Milica Ivošević. When she was 16, she went to Smederevska Palanka with one of her brothers as a textile worker and joined the labour movement (Opšte zanatlijsko radničko društvo or General Artisan Workers Society).

In 1902 he moved to Bulgaria and became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists). After a short stay in Rousse she moved to Sliven. She married Georgi Dimitrov who came from a family of working class activists. He was a unionist and socialist and they had met in 1903 in Sliven. They moved to Sofia in 1904, where she began to work in a luxury sewing attire, and became a manager there. She published her poems in Bulgarian and Serbian left-wing stamp. From 1909 to 1912 she was the editor of the Bulgarian newspaper "Шивашки работник" ("Tailorin Worker"). From 1914, she became a member of the Central Women's Committee of the Bulgarian Narrow Socialists. In 1920, she was a Narrow Socialists envoy to the Yugoslav Communist Party Congress in Belgrade.

After the September Uprising of 1923 she emigrated with his husband to Austria. Ljubica had spent time in Vienna and she taught her husband German. Later they moved to the USSR. She lived permanently in the Moscow hotel "Lux", where she suffered a depression because of the constant travels of her husband and the inability to have a children. In 1927, already mentally ill, Ivoshevic was placed in a special sanatorium near the Soviet capital. The arrest of Dimitrov in 1933 in Germany on a charge of inciting the Reichstag has exacerbated her condition. On 27 May 1933 she committed suicide while her husband was in prison in Berlin.