Matko Mandić (22 September 1849 – 13 May 1915), was a Catholic priest and Croatian nationalist politician. Born in

Mihotići Mihotići is a village in Croatia within the municipality of Matulji. It is located in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Primorje-Gorski Kotar County ( hr, Primorsko-goranska županija, ) is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kv ...

near

Kastav Kastav (Italian: Castua) is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, built on a 365 m high hill overlooking the Kvarner Gulf in the northern part of the Adriatic coast. It is in close vicinity of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia, and t ...

, he studied theology in

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gorit ...

and

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

, and natural sciences in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. He was a member of the so-called second generation of Croatian revivalists of Istria. From 1883 to 1900 he was the editor-in-chief of the Croatian newspaper ''

Naša sloga Naša sloga, was the first newspaper in Istria in Croatian. The newspaper began to be published in Trieste on June 1, 1870, as a four-page small-format biweekly until 1884, from 1884 to 1900 as a weekly. In the meantime, in 1899, they moved from ...

'' in

, where in 1907 he founded the first Croatian daily (''Balkan''). He was one of the main founders of the

Party of Rights The Party of Rights ( hr, Stranka prava) was a Croatian nationalism, Croatian nationalist political party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and later in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was founded in 1861 by Ante Starčević and Eugen Kv ...

in Istria, with

Matko Laginja Matko Laginja (August 10, 1852 – March 18, 1930) was a Croatian lawyer and politician. Born in Klana, he earned a doctorate in law in Graz. In his youth he adopted the political program of Ante Starčević and together with Vjekoslav Spin ...

and

Vjekoslav Spinčić Vjekoslav Spinčić (23 October 1848 – 27 May 1933) was a Croats, Croatian politician from Istria. Born in Spinčići near Kastav, he studied theology in Gorizia and Trieste, and was ordained a priest in 1872. Afterwards, he continued stud ...

. From 1889 until his death (in Trieste) he was elected a member of the Istrian Parliament; In 1907 and 1911 he was elected a member of the Imperial Council in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mandić , Matko 1849 births 1915 deaths People from Primorje-Gorski Kotar County People from Austrian Littoral Croatian Party of Rights politicians Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1911–1918)