Dragutin Rakovac (or Rakovec) (1 November 1813 – 22 November 1854) was a

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n writer, translator and journalist. He was born in Vugrovec. He received a degree in philosophy and law in 1831 in

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. From 1831 he was employed at the

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and in a law clerk office. He was an associate of

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and an editor of the ''Novine horvatske'' (1835–1842). Together with

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and

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he founded and edited magazine

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in 1842. Since 1841 he served as a secretary of the Economic Society and an editor of several of its publications. He also edited ''Koledar za puk'' (1847–1850). He founded the magazine ''Gospodarki list'' and edited it from 1841 to 1850. He became the first curator of the National Museum in 1846. In his youth Rakovac wrote, translated and adapted works in the

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( Theodor Körner and others). His adaptation of a monodrama by

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''Stari mladoženja i košarice'' was published in 1832. The only preserved original dramatic work of his is a dramatic poem ''Duh'' ("Spirit", 1832), while the play ''Veronika od Desenic'', started in 1831, is today only known by its title. His first work in the

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was published in 1835 in the first issue of ''

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'', where he continued to publish Illyrian patriotic and later love poetry (''Sila ljubavi'', 1837 and others), foreshadowing romantic Neopetrarchism. According to a Slovakian template he wrote a poem ''Duh slavjanski'' ("The Slavic Spirit"), from which three stanzas became the anthem of the

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(

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). Together with Ljudevit Vukotinović he published the first Croatian anthology of patriotic poetry: ''Pjesmarica: pjesme domorodne'' in 1842. In his political essay ''Mali katekizam za velike ljude'' ("A small catechism for great people", 1842) he defends the dignity of Croatian and the right to defend the Croatian national identity against the Hungarian encroachments. His memoirs ''Dnevnik'' (1922) were published posthumously, and represent an important historical account of the

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 inte ...

. He died in Zagreb.

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