Antun Mihanović (10 June 1796 – 14 November 1861) was a

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and

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, most famous for writing the national anthem of Croatia, which was put to music by Josip Runjanin and adopted in 1891. Klanjec, his birthplace, holds a monument to him and a gallery of his works.

Biography

Mihanović studied law and worked as a military judge. After engaging in diplomacy, he was the

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and

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. He retired in 1858 as a minister counselor, and lived in Novi Dvori until his death. The poem which would become the Croatian anthem was '' Horvatska domovina''. It was first published in the cultural magazine ''

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'', No. 10, edited by

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, in 1835. The anthem itself would become known as '' Lijepa naša'' (''Our Beautiful''), since those are the first two words of the poem. Mihanović also wrote a small but important book, ''Rěč domovini o hasnovitosti pisanja vu domorodnom jeziku'' (A Word to the Homeland about the Benefits from Writing in Mother Tongue), published in

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in 1815. The ideas in this book became one of the foundations of the

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. Josip Kušević, a Croatian lawyer and politician, was Mihanović's maternal uncle.

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Short biography

* ttp://www.sutla-zumberak.hr/en/cluster/local-government-units/klanjec/ Part of his life Mihanović spent near the town of Klanjec
The Croatian national anthem was written by Mihanović
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mihanovic, Antun Poets from the Austrian Empire People of the Illyrian movement Male lyricists 1796 births 1861 deaths Writers from Zagreb National anthem writers 19th-century Croatian male writers