Osman Nuri Hadžić (28 June 1869 – 23 December 1937) was a
Bosnian intellectual and writer. On 1 May 1900, he co-launched the political journal ''
Behar
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'' with
Safvet beg Bašagić and
Edhem Mulabdić
Edhem Mulabdić (19 October 1862 – 29 January 1954) was a Bosnian writer and co-founder of the political journal ''Behar''.
Biography
Edhem Mulabdić was born in Maglaj in 1862, where he finished Islamic elementary school maktab and then got ...
.
Biography
Hadžić was educated in
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...
,
Vienna
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and
Zagreb
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, where he earned a diploma in 1899. He first served in the district court in his hometown
Mostar
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, as well as Sarajevo. Hadžić later served in the Provincial Government in Sarajevo. During the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, he was a manager in
Dubica and
Banja Luka
Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...
, where he was when the
Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed.
Personal life
Hadžić had four daughters; daughter
Bahrija (4 March 1904 – 24 October 1993) was a soprano singer.
Works
*''Muhammed i Koran – kulturna istorija islama'' ("Muhammed and the Quran: A Cultural History of Islam"; 1931)
References
1869 births
1937 deaths
Writers from Mostar
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims
People from the Ottoman Empire of Bosnian descent
19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
Bosniak writers
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