Matija Ban ( sr-Cyrl, Матија Бан; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a
Serbo-
Croatian poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the
Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik The Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Дубровачки србокатолички покрет, Dubrovački srbokatolički pokret) was a cultural and political movement of people from Dubrovnik who, while Catho ...
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Ban was born in near
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...
, then in the
Kingdom of Dalmatia
The Kingdom of Dalmatia ( hr, Kraljevina Dalmacija; german: Königreich Dalmatien; it, Regno di Dalmazia) was a crown land of the Austrian Empire (1815–1867) and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). It encompassed the entire ...
in the
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence ...
, now in
Croatia
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. Matija Ban settled in
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term "
Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835.
In 1848 he came from Serbia to
Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He is known for his
Romanticist
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
popular tragedies.
See also
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Ignjat Job
Ignjat "Ignjo" Job ( sr-Cyrl, Игњат Јоб; 28 March 1895 – 28 April 1936) was an important representative of colour expressionism in the art scene of Yugoslavia during the 1930s. Job's landscapes of Dalmatia are reminiscent of the style ...
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Ivan Stojanović
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Milan Rešetar
Milan Rešetar (February 1, 1860 – January 14, 1942) was a linguist, historian and literary critic from Dubrovnik.
Biography
Rešetar was born in Dubrovnik. After the gymnasium in Dubrovnik, he studied classical philology and Slavic languages ...
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Vicko Adamović
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Konstantin Branković
References
Further reading
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Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as one ...
, ''Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti''/ A History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921), pages 199-201.
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1818 births
1903 deaths
People from Dubrovnik
People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia
Serbian dramatists and playwrights
Serbian male poets
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbs of Croatia
Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik
19th-century poets
19th-century Serbian dramatists and playwrights
Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia faculty