Mirko Bogović (2 February 1816 – 4 May 1893) was a Croatian poet and politician. He graduated in philosophy in

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in 1830, cadet school in

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(1833–1837) and law in Pest in 1844. He wrote satirical poems incorporating

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, politics and

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as subjects. During the autocracy of von Bach in the 1850s, Bogović was the central person of

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in the

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; as one of the founders of the Croatian novella ("''Pripovijesti''"). In 1867 he was the Grand Perfect of the

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while in period between 1871 and 1875 he served as the ministerial adviser in

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. While his work was voluminous and prominent during his lifetime, it was subsequently often regarded as mediocre by literary critics.

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