Matija Ban | |
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Native name | Матија Бан |
Born | Dubrovnik, Austrian Empire (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) | 16 December 1818
Died | 14 March 1903 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia (now Belgrade, Serbia) | (aged 84)
Occupation | writer, diplomat |
Notable works | Cvijeti Srbske (1865); Vanja (1868) |
Matija Ban ( Serbian Cyrillic: Матија Бан; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a Serbo- Croatian poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.
Ban was born in Petrovo Selo near Dubrovnik, then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in the Austrian Empire, now in Croatia. [1] Matija Ban settled in Serbia in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term " Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835. [2] In 1848 he came from Serbia to Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He is known for his Romanticist popular tragedies.
Matija Ban | |
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Native name | Матија Бан |
Born | Dubrovnik, Austrian Empire (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) | 16 December 1818
Died | 14 March 1903 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia (now Belgrade, Serbia) | (aged 84)
Occupation | writer, diplomat |
Notable works | Cvijeti Srbske (1865); Vanja (1868) |
Matija Ban ( Serbian Cyrillic: Матија Бан; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a Serbo- Croatian poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.
Ban was born in Petrovo Selo near Dubrovnik, then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in the Austrian Empire, now in Croatia. [1] Matija Ban settled in Serbia in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term " Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835. [2] In 1848 he came from Serbia to Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He is known for his Romanticist popular tragedies.