Berta Bergman (née Bergmann; 1892–1945) was a Yugoslav physician and the first Bosnian woman to finish high school. Bergman was born in Blažuj near Sarajevo. She was the eldest of four daughters of the railway officer Joseph Bergmann, an Ashkenazi Jew who moved from Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite the family's modest income, Bergman's mother was determined to secure higher education for her daughters. In order to qualify, the girls first had to attend gymnasium; Berta and her sister Marija thus became, in 1905, the first female pupils in Mostar's Velika gimnazija. In February 1912, the Croatian newspaper reported that Bosnia and Herzegovina got its first female high school graduate, Berta Bergmann. She went on to study medicine in Vienna, graduat