Fran Galović (20 July 1887 – 26 October 1914) was a Croatian writer who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Biography
Born in
Peteranec
Peteranec is a municipality in the Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia, population 2704 (2011 census).
As of 2011, there were three census-registered settlements in the municipality:
*Komatnica (pop. 61)
*Peteranec (pop. 1431)
*Sigetec (pop. 12 ...
near
Koprivnica
Koprivnica () is a city in Northern Croatia, located 70 kilometers northeast of Zagreb. It is the capital and the largest city of the Koprivnica-Križevci county. In 2011, the city's administrative area of 90.94 km2 had a total popu ...
, he studied slavistics and philology in
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...
. During that time he started the magazine ''Mlada Hrvatska''. He worked as a teacher in the II. Gymnasium of Zagreb. 4 books were published during his lifetime: ''Tamara'' (1907), ''Četiri grada'' (1913), ''Začarano ogledalo'' (1913) and ''Ispovijed'' (1914). Most of his poems were written in the
Kajkavian dialect, but none of his Kajkavian poems were published during his lifetime. He died in battle on the Serbian Front during World War I.
In the collection Z mojih bregov Galović repeated some motives known from his Štokavian poetry: the drama of leaving the homeland, the impossibility of return, the unattainability of happiness, the anxiety of losing one's roots, the tragedy of transience. In some poems, impressionistic images of idyllic homeland predominate and some resemble expressionist miniatures with a strong charge of apart sensibility (lonely premonitions of death, unknown "something", pictorial and sound grotesque). Acting in the era of Croatian modernity, he accepted a variety of artistic and aesthetic programs. That is why his works are marked by stylistic searches in a thematic range from ancient mythology to the twilight atmospheres of European symbolism.
Works
*Tamara
*Četiri grada
*Začarano ogledalo
*Ispovijed
Posthumously:
References
Bibliography
*
*
Further reading
*
External links
*http://frangalovic.net/
*http://www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?id=21131
Croatian writers
1887 births
1914 deaths
Austro-Hungarian military personnel killed in World War I
Writers from Austria-Hungary
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
{{Croatia-writer-stub