Mijat Stojanović (26 September 1818 – 18 September 1881
) was a
Croatian educator,
ethnographer
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and folk writer.
Mijat Stojanović was born in
Babina Greda
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, a municipality in the
Vukovar-Srijem County
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in
Croatia
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in 1818, and died in
Zagreb
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in 1881.
He was politically engaged, and fought against the dualist monarchy which was at the expense of Yugoslav people. He stood for co-operation of
South Slavic peoples and the advanced ideas.
Elementary school in Babina Greda bears his name.
References
1818 births
1881 deaths
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
Scholars from the Austrian Empire
Ethnographers from Austria-Hungary
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