Pavao Štoos (10 December 1806 – 30 March 1862
) was a
Croatian
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*Croatian people
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*
*
* Croatan (disambiguation)
* Croatia (disambiguation)
* Croatoan (disambiguation)
* Hrvatski (disambiguation)
* Hrvatsko (disambiguation)
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poet, priest and a
revivalist.
After graduating theology in Zagreb, he served as a bishop's secretary for a brief period, and from 1842 he was a pastor of the
Pokupsko
Pokupsko is a municipality in Croatia in the Zagreb County. According to the 2011 census, there are 2,224 inhabitants, absolute majority of which are Croats.
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Populated places in Zagreb County
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parish.
Štoos is a notable person among Croatian patriots; as the author of a well-known elegy ''Kip domovine vu početku leta 1831'',
collaborator of
Ljudevit Gaj
Ljudevit Gaj (; born Ludwig Gay; hu, Gáj Lajos; 8 August 1809 – 20 April 1872) was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was one of the central figures of the pan-Slavist Illyrian movement.
Biography
Origin
He was bo ...
's ''
Danica ilirska
Danica ilirska was the first Croatian literary magazine launched on 10 January 1835 as a weekly supplement to ''Novine horvatske'' newspaper in Zagreb, the Kingdom of Croatia.
It was initially published under the title of ''Danicza horvatzka, slav ...
'', he clearly articulated his concerns over the foreign oppression and the de-nationalisation of the common people (''vre i svoj jezik zabit Horvati hote ter drugi narod postati''). Štoos pessimistically observes contemporary political and cultural movements, seeing the country as if trapped in the darkness of a dungeon (''srce od plača ne mrem zdržati'').
Besides the literature, he was also engaged in music and has published in 1858 ''Kitice srkvenih pjesama s napjevima''. He is the author of the song "Poziv u kolo ilirsko".
In 1862 he was appointed as a Zagreb
canon
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, but he died before he managed to officially receive the title.
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1806 births
1862 deaths
Croatian male poets
People from Dubravica
19th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
19th-century Croatian poets
19th-century male writers
People of the Illyrian movement