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Luko Zore
Luko Zore ( sr-Cyrl, Луко Зоре; January 15, 1846 – November 26, 1906) was a Serbian philologist and Slavist from Dubrovnik. He was one of the leaders of the opposition to Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik and a member of the Serb Catholic movement in Dubrovnik. Later in life he lived in Montenegro. Biography Luko Zore was born in Cavtat, son of ''Antun Zore'' and ''Marija Sabadin Pupiza''. He published his first dramatic piece, ''"Pokora"'', in the journal ''Srđ'', which he co-founded with Mr. and Mrs. Antun Fabris, and with the material and moral support of friends. It was his bold attempt at challenging the capricious ''Thalia (Muse)'', the muse of comedy. The play—a farce—is set in Cavtat, Zore's birthplace, in the nineteenth century. At that time there were two major intellectual trends in Dubrovnik as well as in the whole of Dalmatia: one favoured the union of all the Slavic peoples, believing that they were of one nation ( Illyrian movement), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavtat
Cavtat (, it, Ragusa Vecchia, lit=Old Ragusa) is a village in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. It is on the Adriatic Sea coast south of Dubrovnik and is the centre of the Konavle municipality. History Antiquity The original city was founded by the Greeks in the 6th century BC under the name of Epidaurus (or Epidauros, el, Ἐπίδαυρος). The surrounding area was inhabited by the Illyrians, who called the city Zaptal. The town changed its name to Epidaurum when it came under Roman rule in 228 BC. Justinian I the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire sent his fleet to Cavtat during the Gothic War (535–554) and occupied the town. The city was sacked and destroyed by the Avars and Slavs in the 7th century. Refugees from Epidaurum fled to the nearby island, Laus (Ragusa) which over time evolved into the city of Dubrovnik. Middle Ages The town was re-established in the Middle Ages ( it, Ragusa Vecchia). After a short while it came under the control of its powerful ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illyrian Movement
The Illyrian movement ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Ilirski pokret, Илирски покрет; sl, Ilirsko gibanje) was a pan-South-Slavic cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian intellectuals during the first half of the 19th century, around the years of 1835–1863 (there is some disagreement regarding the official dates from 1835 to 1870). This movement aimed to create a Croatian national establishment in Austria-Hungary through linguistic and ethnic unity, and through it lay the foundation for cultural and linguistic unification of all South Slavs under the revived umbrella term '' Illyrian''. Aspects of the movement pertaining to the development of Croatian culture are considered in Croatian historiography to be part of the Croatian national revival ( hr, Hrvatski narodni preporod). Name In the 19th century, the name ''Illyrian'' was chosen by the members of the movement as a reference to the theory according t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as one of the most influential Serbian literary critics of the early 20th century, after Bogdan Popović, his professor and early mentor. Skerlić was buried in the Novo groblje cemetery in Belgrade. at the New Graveyard Bibliography His collected works include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uroš Trojanović
Uroš Trojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Урош Тројановић; Rose, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 1882 - Dubrovnik Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ..., 19 December 1903) was a Serbian poet and journalist. Biography Uroš Trojanović was born in the village of Rose near Herceg Novi in 1882. He attended the Dubrovnik Gymnasium. He was among the leaders of Dubrovnik's Serbian youth and opposed the Austrian regime. In the Gymnasium of 1900, together with the ardent Serbian Catholic Stjepan Kobasić, he began publishing a handwritten copy of the secret student (Serbian-oriented) newspaper ''Poma'', which was taken over in 1901 by a high school student, a young Serbian Catholic Petar Kolendić. He was arrested in November 1902 for publishing the song ''"Bokeška noć"' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Royal Academy
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters ( sr, link=no, Друштво србске словесности, ДСС, Društvo srbske slovesnosti, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo Andrić, Leopold Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Glenn T. Seaborg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Peter Handke as well as, Josif Pančić, Jovan Cvijić, Branislav Petronijević, Vlaho Bukovac, Mihajlo Pupin, Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milanković, Mihailo Petrović-Alas, Mehmed Meša Selimović, Danilo Kiš, Dmitri Mendeleev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Jacob Grimm, Antonín Dvořák, Henry Moore and many other scientists, scholars and artists of Serbian and foreign origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diet Of Dalmatia
The Diet of Dalmatia ( hr, Dalmatinski sabor, it, Dieta della Dalmazia) was the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was founded in Zadar in 1861 and last convened in 1912, before being formally dissolved in 1918, with the demise of the Empire. Since the founding of the Dalmatian diet, the pro-Italian Autonomist Party held the parliamentary majority until 1870, when the (Croatian-Serbian) People's Party won the parliamentary election. Croatian then became the official language of the diet in 1883. The premises Under the constitutional reforms promoted by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, under an imperial decree dated 20 October 1860, the Empire underwent a form of "federalization", following the majority opinion of the Board Empire. According to these determinations, many legislative and judicial powers were conferred onto every province in the kingdom through the reconstitution of the powers—or the creation of new powers— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto Kovačić
Hristifor "Risto" Kovačić (Risan, 22 May 1845 – Risan, 22 April 1909) was historian and teacher. Kovačić's most important writings were on Serbian antiquities. There is much that is striking and original in his history of Serbs in Italy (''Gli Slavi Serbi dell' Italia'', 1885). H Biography Kovačić was baptised Hristifor (hence "Risto") in Risan in the tradition of his ancestral Herzegovinian adherents of the Serbian Orthodox Church. His patron saint was St. John the Baptist. After completing his high school education in Kotor, Dubrovnik and Zadar, he studied philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna. Upon graduation, he became a professor at a gymnasium in Kotor and at a Serbian Naval School in Herceg Novi, from 1867 until 1871 and again from 1880 to 1881. In 1883 he moved to Rome where he taught Slavistics until the end of his life. He visited Molise in 1884 and wrote a report to Serbian Learned Society about Serbian settlements. In his report, published in 1885, he emphasize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medo Pucić
Orsat "Medo" Pucić, ( it, Orsatto Pozza, ; 12 March 1821 – 30 June 1882) was a Ragusan writer and an important member of the Catholic Serb movement. Biography Orsat Pucić was born on in Dubrovnik, then in the Austrian Empire. He was descended from the House of Pucić, an old noble family of Republic of Ragusa. His brother was Niko Pucić. He attended the lyceum in Venice, where in 1841 he became acquainted with Ján Kollár. Pucić was impressed with his pan-Slavist ideas, and went on to join the Illyrian movement. Pucić's was a member of Serb Catholic movement. He studied between 1841 and 1843 in the University of Padua, and then from 1843 to 1845 he studied law in Vienna and was a Knight Hospitaller of the Sovereign Order of Saint John. In 1841, Medo Pucić, a writer from an old Catholic noble family, became acquainted with pan-Slavists Ján Kollár and Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and started to espouse a Serb national sentiment. Pucić lived in the cities of Lucca and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seconded
In deliberative bodies a second to a proposed motion is an indication that there is at least one person besides the mover that is interested in seeing the motion come before the meeting. It does not necessarily indicate that the seconder favors the motion. Purpose The purpose of requiring a second is to prevent time being wasted by the assembly's having to dispose of a motion that only one person wants to see introduced. Hearing a second to a motion is guidance to the chair that they should state the question on the motion, thereby placing it before the assembly. It does not necessarily indicate that the seconder favors the motion. Procedure The seconder may state "I second the motion" or "second" without first being recognized by the chair. They may remain seated but in larger assemblies, except in those where nonmembers may be seated in the hall, the seconder should stand. After hearing a second, the chair then states the question and the motion is placed before the assembly f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuk Vrčević
Vuk Vrčević ( sr-cyr, Вук Врчевић; Risan, 26 February 1811 – Dubrovnik, 13 August 1882) was a Montenegrin serb collector of lyric poetry and companion of Vuk Karadžić, the famed linguist and reformer of the Serbian language. He also translated into Serbian the poetical work of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapessi, better known by his pseudonym Metastasio (1698–1782). Biography Vuk Vrčević was born at Risan in Bay of Kotor, then under the rule of the Habsburg monarchy, on 26 February 1811. His family was of Serbian origin and was settled in Boka Kotorska from time immemorial. His parents were in poor circumstances, and he owed his education to his own perseverance. He early developed a gift for languages, becoming familiar not only with Old Slavonic, Russian and Greek, but also Turkish, Latin, Italian, French and German (thus mastering all the languages spoken by the foreign invaders of his Serbian homeland during the early stages of the 19th century). When he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Sundečić
Jovan Sundečić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Сундечић; 24 June 1825 – 19 July 1900) was a Serbian poet, priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a secretary to Prince Nikola I of Montenegro. He is most famous for writing lyrics of contemporary anthem of Montenegro Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori (''To Our Beautiful Montenegro'').He also lived in Livno as a priest of orthodox churchGlas Crnogorca, 19 October 1999; Jovan MarkušДвије црногорске химне/ref> Biography Sundečić was born in the village of Golinjevo, near Livno, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). His family is of the Šundić brotherhood from Župa near Nikšić in Old Herzegovina. After finishing the Orthodox Seminary in Zadar, Dalmatia province of the Austrian Empire and becoming a priest, he was assigned parish priest and teacher to the Serb colony of Peroj in Istria, Austrian Littoral. After working as a professor at the Zadar Seminary, he became famous as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antun Paško Kazali
Antun Pasko Kazali (29 April 1815 – 10 January 1894) was a Croatian folk-writer, poet and translator. Born in Dubrovnik (Ragusa), he went to school in Dubrovnik, studying philosophy and theology in Zadar (Zara). He was a parish priest in Ošlje near Ston and chaplain in Šipan. As a parish priest, he often came into conflict with church authorities. He spent his most creative period in Zadar, starting in 1855. He was a professor at the gymnasium in Zadar, teaching Latin, Greek, and Croatian (1855–1861), and in 1862 became a professor at Rijeka/Fiume gymnasium. The last ten years of his life were spent in Dubrovnik. He has written ''Spjev Zlatka'' (published in Zadar in 1856), ''Trista VICA widow'' (Zadar, 1857), ''A voice from the wilderness'' (Zadar, 1861) and ''Grobnik'' (Rijeka, 1863). Several other works are in manuscript and the best known is ''Spjev Ćoso'', an autobiographical poem. He was an associate and writer for the ''Zora Dalmatinska'' journal, and edited th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
