Jovan Sundečić
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Jovan Sundečić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Сундечић; 24 June 1825 – 19 July 1900) was a
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poet, priest of the
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and a secretary to
Prince Nikola I of Montenegro Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyr, Никола I Петровић-Његош; – 1 March 1921) was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 19 ...
. He is most famous for writing lyrics of contemporary
anthem An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries. Originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short ...
of Montenegro
Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori "Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori" ( sr, Убавој нам Црној Гори, en, To Our Beautiful Montenegro) was the national and state anthem of the Kingdom of Montenegro in the late 19th-early 20th century. A popular song called " Onamo, 'namo!" () ...
(''To Our Beautiful Montenegro'').He also lived in Livno as a priest of orthodox church
Glas Crnogorca ''Voice of Montenegro'' ( srp, Glas Crnogorca / Глас Црногорца) was a weekly newspaper published in Cetinje between 1873 and 1916. After the Serbian annexation of Montenegro in 1918, the newspaper continued to be published in exile ...
, 19 October 1999;
Jovan Markuš Jovan Markuš ( sr-cyr, Јован Маркуш; 20 January 1949) is a Montenegrin politician, journalist, publicist, historian and heraldist. He is the former mayor of Cetinje, Montenegro's Old Capital. Biography Jovan Markuš graduated from t ...

Двије црногорске химне
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Biography

Sundečić was born in the village of
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, near Livno, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). His family is of the Šundić brotherhood from Župa near Nikšić in Old Herzegovina. After finishing the Orthodox Seminary in Zadar,
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province of the Austrian Empire and becoming a priest, he was assigned parish priest and teacher to the Serb colony of Peroj in
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,
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. After working as a professor at the Zadar Seminary, he became famous as a "priest-poet" and political and national activist, because of which he decided to move to Montenegro. Prince Nicholas I named him his personal secretary in 1864, a post on which Jovan worked until his retirement in 1874, though he remained honorary secretary until his death. In 1865 Jovan Sundečić founded the ''Orlić'' (Орлић) yearly, the second publication in Montenegro. He was also the editor and owner of the first Montenegrin weekly, ''The Montenegrin'' (Црногорац) of Duke Sima Popović, which was published from 1871 to 1873, as well as the owner of the first Montenegrin literary magazine ''The Montenegriness'' (Црногорка) from 1871. Sundečić, Milan Kostić, and Vasa Pelagić were instrumental in establishing "The Montenegrin Warrior," a literary association, in Cetinje in February 1872. The association had great success in educating the Serb youth of Montenegro. At the time he was one of the founding members of the newly established
Association for Serb Liberation and Unification Association for Serb Liberation and Unification ( sr-cyr, Дружина за ослобођење и уједињење српско) or Society for Serb Liberation and Unification (Друштво за ослобођење и уједињење с ...
. Sundečić's ''Ne dajmo se!'' (Let's not surrender!), a lyric poem, for the Congress of the Union of Choral Societies, was welcomed instantly with great enthusiasm. That poem, turned into a song by Czech composer Vojtĕch Hlaváč (1849-1911), very effectively urged the youth to fight for their aims, and was also adopted as an anthem of the Choral Society of Vršac. Pope Leo XIII and Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro concluded -- ''"Ugovor između Svete Stolice i Crnogoske Vlade u položaju katoličkih i arhiepiskopa barskog. Ugovor su potpisali kardinal Lodoviko Jakobini, sa strane Svete Stolice i državni tajnik Jovan Sundečić, sa crnogorske strane"''— a Concordat in Rome on 18 August 1886. The signatories were Cardinal
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(1832-1887) for the Holy See, and Nikola's secretary Jovan Sundečić for Montenegro, who was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Leo XIII. From 1892 to 1894 Jovan also worked as editor of ''Education'' (Просвјета). He contributed greatly to education in Montenegro by drafting the Statute and completely organizing the renewed Cetinje Seminary in 1869, which was subsequently transformed into the Seminary Teachers' School. An active diplomat, Nicholas sent Jovan on numerous missions. For his works, he was awarded 1st rank of the Order of Prince Danilo I, the highest Montenegrin medal. He retired and settled in Kotor, Principality of Montenegro, where he died on 6 July 1900. In 1865 at his Cetinje-based ''Orlic'' Jovan published his poem dedicated to Prince Nikola, the "Montenegrin National anthem", a proposition for an anthem of the newly arising Montenegrin realm. In 1870 on Lučindan it was for the first time publicly sang accompanied with lyrics. It was sung in the rooms of the Cetinje Reading Room the Serb Vocal Society ''Unity'' from Kotor of
Petar II Petrović Njegoš Petar ( sr, Петар, bg, Петър) is a South Slavic masculine given name, their variant of the Biblical name Petros cognate to Peter. Derivative forms include Pero, Pejo, Pera, Perica, Petrica, Periša. Feminine equivalent is Petra. ...
. The bandmaster was the choirmaster of the Czech Society Antun Shultz. The next day, on 18 October 1870, the poem was under its new name '' To Our Beautiful Montenegro'' handed over to Nikola I, who used it as the state anthem of Montenegro until its statehood was extinguished with the unification of Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin composer Jovan Đurov Ivanišević adapted the music better in 1887 in his published songs in Prague. It was then, by the order of the Ministry of Education, proclaimed as the only state anthem. After the recognition of an independent Princedom of Montenegro at the 1878 Congress of Berlin, "To Our Beautiful Montenegro" became a standard protocol song in Cetinje. In 1878 Jovan Sundečić together with the Ragusans
Luko Zore Luko Zore ( sr-Cyrl, Луко Зоре; January 15, 1846 – November 26, 1906) was a Serbian philologist and Slavist from Dubrovnik. He was one of the leaders of the opposition to Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik and a member of ...
, Medo and his brother
Niko Pucić Niko Pucić de Zagorien (also ''Nicola Pozza'' in Italian; February 5, 1820 – April 13, 1883) was a writer and politician from the old Ragusan noble family. Biography He was born in Dubrovnik in 1820. He was the brother of Medo Pucić, another ...
, Vjekoslav Pretner, Pero Budmani,
Antun Paško Kazali Antun Pasko Kazali (29 April 1815 – 10 January 1894) was a Croatian folk-writer, poet and translator. Born in Dubrovnik (Ragusa), he went to school in Dubrovnik, studying philosophy and theology in Zadar (Zara). He was a parish priest in O ...
, Ivan August Kaznačić and
Vuk Vrčević Vuk Vrčević ( sr-cyr, Вук Врчевић; Risan, 26 February 1811 – Dubrovnik, 13 August 1882) was a Montenegrin serb collector of lyric poetry and companion of Vuk Karadžić, the famed linguist and reformer of the Serbian language. He a ...
founded the pro-Serbian, Dubrovnik-based publication, ''"Slovinac"''. Sundečić kept in close touch with Antonije Stražičić, a Serb from Dubrovnik, who launched a weekly journal called ''"Napredak"'' (Progress) in Sarajevo in 1890. The Austrian authorities requested information about Stražičić from authorities in Zadar where he lived for a while. According to the furnished data Stražičić was a Serb belonging to the Old Catholic faith (''staro-katolička veroispovest'') whose political and cultural interests were aligned with the Serbian party, better known as the Serb-Catholic circle, headed by Medo Pucić.


References

* Jovan Skerlić, ''Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti'' (Belgrade, 1921), pages 294-296. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sundecic, Jovan 1825 births 1900 deaths Serbian writers People from Livno Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian male poets Serbian Orthodox clergy Recipients of the Order of St. Sava Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great People's Party (Dalmatia) politicians People of the Principality of Montenegro Serbs of Montenegro