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

Kastav Kastav is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, western part of Croatia, built on a 365 m high hill overlooking the Kvarner Gulf on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic. It is in close vicinity of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia ...

, he studied theology in

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and

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, and natural sciences in

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. 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'' 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 () 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 Kvaternik, two influ ...

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 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 studies in hist ...

. 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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. Mandić was the uncle of composer Josip Mandić and politician

Ante Mandić Ante Mandić (2 June 1881 – 15 September 1959) was a lawyer and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician born in Trieste. He studied law at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctoral degree in law from the University of Graz before being emp ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mandić, Matko 1849 births 1915 deaths People from Kastav Croatian Party of Rights politicians Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1911–1918) People from the Margraviate of Istria