Andrija Balović (

Perast Perast () is a town in Coastal Montenegro, Coastal region of Montenegro. It is situated a few kilometres northwest of Kotor and is noted for its proximity to the islets of Sveti Đorđe Island, St. George and Our Lady of the Rocks. History Acc ...

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, 18 May 1721 – Perast, 28 July 1784) was a Roman Catholic priest, historian, writer, translator and theologian, native of

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.Balović, Andrija
Hrvatska enciklopedija

Biography

Born in

to a well-known patrician household Balovići, a family with six children. Andrija was the son of Marko Balović, and brother of Josip Balović,Redakcija (1983)
Balović
Hrvatski biografski leksikon also the nephew of Julije Balović.Radauš, Tatjana (1983)
Balović, Julije
Hrvatski biografski leksikon, LZMK He attended the Roman Catholic seminary in Dalmatian city of

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. In Loreto, he studied theology at the Illyrian College, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and theology. He was a priest in

Risan Risan ( Montenegrin: Рисан, ) is a town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. It traces its origins to the ancient settlement of Rhizon, the oldest settlement in the Bay of Kotor. Lying in the innermost portion of the bay, the settlement was prot ...

since 1753. After 1766, until his death, he was the

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...

of St. George and the parish priest in his native Perast. He translated church songs and religious works into Serbo-Croatian. He is also important as a copyist of the works of writers

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and Serafin Crijević. Balović's contribution to historical science is a short history of

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, which he wrote in Italian in 1750. His most important Italian work, however, is the ''Annali di Pirusto'' (Annals of Perast), an overview of the history of the city of Perast in Italian, but the real title is ''Historia della valorosa Nobile Nazione Pirustina, del Seno Rezonnico e della Dalmazia Superiore, ò sia Croatia rubea'' or in English "The History of the Brave Noble Perast People, from the Gulf of Risan and Upper Dalmatia, or Red Croatia". He was encouraged to write the Annals by Josip Bronza.Foretić, Vinko (1989)
Bronza
Hrvatski biografski leksikon, LZMK

Sources

* Old Boka literature. Old Serbo-Croatian writers from Kotor, Perast, Dobrota, Prčanj and Budva / S. Prosperov Novak,

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, 1996. * Balović, Andrija, Croatian encyclopedia * Redakcija (1983): Balović, ''Hrvatski biografski leksikon'' * Radaus, Tatjana (1983); Balović, Julije, Croatian Biographical Lexicon, LZMK * Foretić, Vinko (1989): Bronza, Croatian Biographical Lexicon, LZMK

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balović, Andrija Croats of Montenegro Montenegrin Roman Catholic priests 1721 births 1784 deaths