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List Of People From Bjelovar-Bilogora County
The following is a list of notable people from Bjelovar and the geographical area corresponding to present-day Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia. Artists, musicians and actors * Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga (born 1960), rock musician * Vojin Bakić (1915-1992), sculptor * Dragomir Čumić (1937-2013), actor * Tošo Dabac (1907-1970), photographer * Bogdan Diklić (born 1952), actor * Eva Fischer (1920-2015), actress * Sonja Kovač (born 1984), actress * Velko Milojevic (Charles Millot) (1921-2003), actor * Edo Murtić (1921-2005), painter * Bojan Navojec (born 1976), actor * Goran Navojec (born 1970), actor and musician * Mario Petreković (born 1972), actor * Ivo Robić (1923-2000), singer * Ferdo Rusan (1810-1879), reformer, composer and musician * Ivo Serdar (1933-1985), actor * Zdenko Strižić (1902-1990), architect, urban planner, and teacher * Snježana Tribuson (born 1957), screenwriter and film director File:Vojin Bakić.jpg, Bakić File:EvaFischer 1.JPG, Fischer F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjelovar
Bjelovar ( hu, Belovár, german: Bellowar, Kajkavian: ''Belovar'') is a city in central Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. At the 2021 census, there were 36,433 inhabitants, of whom 93.06% were Croats. History The oldest Neolithic location in this area is in Ždralovi, a suburb of Bjelovar, where, while building a basement for the house of Josip Horvatić, a dugout was found and identified as belonging to the Starčevo culture (5000 – 4300 BC). Finds from Ždralovi belong to a regional subtype of a late variant of the Neolithic culture. It is designated the Ždralovi ''facies'' of the Starčevo culture, or the final-stage Starčevo. There are also relics of the Korenovo culture, Sopot culture, Lasinja culture, and the Vučedol culture. as well as the Bronze and Iron Age cultures, found in the wider Bjelovar area. The more intensive development of the area began with the arrival of the Romans, who first came to the area between the Sava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdo Rusan
Ferdo Rusan (1810–1879) was a Croatian reformer, composer and musician. Ferdo Rusan was son of an officer, born in small village Pavlin Kloštar near the town of Bjelovar in Croatia on 10 December 1810. He died in Virje, Croatia on 2 May 1879. He completed the cadet school in Bjelovar and in 1828 he became a cadet. After being a soldier for some time, in 1842 he left the army. Ferdo Rusan was the main recorder of renaissance movements in Varaždin Military Frontier area and Bjelovar Military Commune. He publicised by speech and pen the details and opinions of civil and military classes that clearly show how the people of the region became part of the growing and progressing Croatian Movement. Ferdo Rusan was involved with Illyrian movement in Croatia. In Bjelovar there is the memorial tablet in the street that bears his name. One street in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilko Begić
Vilko Begić (20 January 1874 – 1946?) was a Croatian military officer. Biography Begić was born in Čazma, Austria-Hungary, that today is in Croatia. He was quartermaster colonel in the Austro-Hungarian Army. After World War I he was a journalist. He was often attacked by the Yugoslav gendarmerie. In 1924 he was arrested because of an illegal border pass, in 1929 he was accused of terrorism, then he was judged together with Vladko Maček. In 1933 he was arrested because of spreading leaflets. He was a close associate of Vladko Maček After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia he joined the Croatian Domobranstvo, a regular army of the Croatia at the time. He was promoted to the rank of General of the infantry and on 14 August 1941 he was named state secretary in the Ministry of Defence. He was advisor to Poglavnik Ante Pavelić. In April 1943 he escorted Pavelić in a visit to Adolf Hitler. At the beginning of September 1943 he was named as Doglavnik (deputy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matica Hrvatska
Matica hrvatska ( la, Matrix Croatica) is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyrian movement during the Croatian National Revival (1835–1874). Its main goals are to promote Croatian national and cultural identity in the fields of art, science, spiritual creativity, economy and public life as well as to care for social development of Croatia. Today, in the Palace of Matica hrvatska in the centre of Zagreb more than hundred book presentations, scientific symposia, round table discussions, professional and scientific lectures and concerts of classical music are being organized annually. Matica Hrvatska is also one of the largest and most important book and magazine publishers in Croatia. Magazines issued by Matica are ''Vijenac'', ''Hrvatska revija'' and ''Kolo''. Matica Hrvatska also publishes many books in one of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Trnski
Ivan Trnski (1 May 1819 – 30 June 1910) was a Croatian writer, translator and puzzle designer. Glorified by his contemporaries as a great poet and patriot, he is now considered a skillful poet and a prolific author of occasional verse. Life Trnski was born in a family of teachers in the village of Nova Rača near Bjelovar. He completed his primary education in Grubišno Polje in 1830. When his father died, Ivan was sent to the diocesan orphanage in Zagreb, where he went to the Gymnasium. He completed the three-year course for administrative border officer in Graz. After serving for several years on the Military Frontier, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1867 and to colonel in 1869. He was the first prefect of the Bjelovar-Križevci County from July 1871 until February 1872, when he renounced the post. In 1901 Trnski served as the president of Matica hrvatska. He died in Zagreb. He was the brother-in-law of the Slovene liberal politician Karel Lavrič. Works Trnski wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Tribuson
Goran Tribuson (; born August 6, 1948 in Bjelovar) is a Croatian people, Croatian prose and screenplay writer. Tribuson received his B.A. in literature from the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb and his M.A. in filmology at the University of Zagreb. He worked for the Vjesnik Marketing Agency, and was a coeditor and revisor of the Croatian Lexicon. He teaches screen-writing at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. Along with Pavao Pavličić, Tribuson is the most productive and the most popular Croatian writer from the mid-1970s to the present day. From the point of view of style, genre and subject matter Tribuson's work can be divided in several phases which all have in common the author's concern for the reader for whom he is writing, a compact plot, a great writing skill and the avoidance of any ideology. Tribuson is equally skilled in the application of postmodernist techniques: persiflage, quotes, intertextuality, autoreference, metatextuality etc. His writing is influenced by r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janus Pannonius
Janus Pannonius ( la, Ioannes Pannonius, hr, Ivan Česmički, hu, Csezmiczei János or ; 29 August 1434 – 27 March 1472) was a Croatian- Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of humanist poetry in Europe. Life Born in Slavonia, Janus's father was a CroatÁdám Makkai''In quest of the 'miracle stag': the poetry of Hungary : an anthology of Hungarian poetry in English translation from the 13th century to the present in commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of Hungary and the 40th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956'' University of Illinois Press, 1996, p. 41 whose social status and relation to the nobility is unclear. His mother, Borbála Vitéz, was Hungarian. Pope Pius II wrote that Pannonius was of Slavonian origin (''de origine Slavonica''). His biographer and friend Vespasiano da Bisticci said that he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đuro Sudeta
Đuro Sudeta ( Stara Plošćica near Bjelovar, April 10, 1903 — Koprivnica, April 30, 1927) was a Yugoslav writer. After finishing the gymnasium in Zagreb, in 1922 he started working as a teacher at the civil school in Virje. Ever since the summer 1925, he fought tuberculosis, treating it in Topolšica, Zagreb and Koprivnica. In his brief lifetime he published two books of poetry: ''Osamljenim stazama'' ("By lonesome paths") and ''Kućice u Dolu'' ("Little houses in Dol"). He also wrote several novels and feuilletons. Sudeta is a poet of dusky sentiments, rain, anxiety, disease and perishing, but he is want of the Sun, vivacity, spring and harmony, confronted with brutal reality of patient's deathbed. Sudeta is a lyric abounding with straightforwardness, creator of a divine religious inspiration, seeking for comfort of the solitude and the redemption in the idyllic quietude of snow-white churches. Among the myriad of short stories he wrote, modern lyrical-fantastic novel ''Mor' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich (Croatian: ''Novaković'') is a Croatian Canadian writer. Early life and education Josip Novakovich was born in Yugoslavia (in 1956) and grew up in the central Croatian town of Daruvar. Novakovich studied medicine at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. He left Yugoslavia to avoid service in the Yugoslav People's Army, and moved to the United States at the age of 20. He continued his education at Vassar College (B.A.), Yale Divinity School (M.Div.), and the University of Texas, Austin (M.A.). Career Novakovich has published a novel (''April Fool's Day''), four short story collections (''Yolk'', ''Salvation and Other Disasters'', ''Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust'', Tumbleweed), four collections of narrative essays (''Apricots from Chernobyl'', ''Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey'', ''Three Deaths'', and ''Shopping for a Better Country''); and two textbooks (''Writing Fiction Step by Step'', ''Fiction Writer's Workshop'') and hundreds of short stories and ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Mrazović
Milena Theresia Preindlsberger von Preindlsperg (; 28 December 1863 – 20 January 1927) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, writer, and piano, composer. Mrazović is credited for introducing Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she lived for 40 years, to the German-speaking public. She was the first journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the author of the first classical compositions on its soil but remains best known for the travel books she wrote during her long journeys. While horseback riding through remote mountain villages, Mrazović recorded Bosnian oral tradition and collected traditional costumes, building a valuable collection. Early life Milena Mrazović was born on 28 December 1863 in the now Croatian town of Bjelovar, Austrian Empire. Belonging to a middle-class family, she was educated in Budapest. She moved with her family in 1878 to Banja Luka, where her father was appointed an administrative officer, several weeks after Bosnia-Herzegovina was occupied by Austria-Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mato Lovrak
Mato Lovrak (8 March 1899 - 14 March 1974) was a Croatian children's literature writer. Biography Mato Lovrak was born on 8 March 1899 in Veliki Grđevac. Lovrak finished teacher training college in Zagreb and served as teacher in Kutina, Veliki Grđevac, Veliki Zdenci and Zagreb. Lovrak wrote realistic short stories and novels for children. His most famous works are "'' Vlak u snijegu''" ("A Train in the Snow"), "'' Družba Pere Kvržice''" ("Pero Kvržica's Gang"). Those novels were the basis for two children's movies with the same names. "''Vlak u snijegu''" has been translated into German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Slovene language. "''Družba Pere Kvržice''" has been translated into Esperanto. His works emphasized love for children, the beauty of nature and the pursuit of social justice Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavko Kolar
Slavko Kolar (1 December 1891 - 15 September 1963) was a Yugoslav writer. Selected works * Nasmijane pripovijesti (1917) * Ili jesmo - ili nismo (1933) * Mi smo za pravicu (1936) * Svoga tijela gospodar (1942) * Natrag u naftalin (1946) * Glavno da je kapa na glavi (1956) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolar, Slavko 1891 births 1963 deaths Yugoslav writers People from Garešnica Yugoslav screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
