Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM, World music museum in BELGRADE, IVANA VUKOVC and Prof. Rastko Jeftovic, present Desanka Maksimovic born on May 16, 1898 in the village of Rabrovica, near Valjevo. She was the eldest child of father Mihailo, teacher, and mother Draginja. Shortly after her birth, Mihailo Maksimovic was being transferred and the family moved to Brankovina. Brankovina he spent his childhood until the end of primary school, and in Valjevo and finished high school. <br />After World War I enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where she studied in the department of world literature, general history and art history. When he graduated in 1923, first worked in Obrenovac Grammar School, and then was appointed as trainee teachers in the women's Third Gymnasium in Belgrade. <br />Desanka Maksimovic spent a year in Paris on perfecting a French government grant. After the 3rd of September 1925, she worked for about a year in the Teacher Training College in Dubrovnik, crossed again in Belgrade, where she worked at the First Girls' High School. One of her student was Alečković and Mira, who also became a poet and close friend of expression of. At the beginning of the Second World War is retired, but returned to service in 1944 and in the same school remained until the final retirement in 1953.. <br />On 17 December 1959 elected a corresponding member of the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and December 16, 1965, a regular member. <br />Desanka Maksimovic died on 11 February 1993, in his 95th year, in Belgrade. She was buried in Brankovina near Valjevo.
