Marko Došen (7 July 1859 – 7 September 1944[1]) was a writer, who later became a Croatian Ustaše politician.
Biography
editBorn in Mušaluk[1] (now part of Gospić), Došen finished elementary school in Lika and one grade of gymnasium in Bjelovar. He entered into trade, but in 1890 moved to Russia where he opened a bookstore in Saint Petersburg. Together with a Russian historian surnamed Filipov, he published the book Hrvati i njihova borba s Austrijom (Croats and their struggle against Austria).[2] He returned to Gospić in 1893 and the following year started his weekly magazine Hrvat which he edited for ten years.[2]
He was a member of Starčević's Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament from 1913 to 1918.[1] Since 1918 he was a member of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS).[1][2] He was elected into the national assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, 1923 and 1925.[2]
After the Pašić–Radić agreement in 1925 he ended his association with Radić's HRSS. After King Alexander declared a royal dictatorship on 6 January 1929, Došen became a member of the Ustaša, a Croatian revolutionary organization.[1][2] With Andrija Artuković, Došen was the main organizer of the Velebit Uprising in 1932.[2] After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia he returned to the country from Hungary, where he had lived since 1934.[2] In 1942 he became the president of the Croatian Parliament.[1] Although the Parliament only met a few times within the first year, he retained his position as its president until his death.[citation needed]
Marko Došen died [clarification needed] in September 1944 at the age of 85 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery with full military and state honors.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Matković, Stjepan; Jonjić, Tomislav (June 2016). "Dnevnik Kerubina Šegvića 1943. – 1945" (PDF). Croatica Christiana Periodica (in Croatian). 40 (77): 197–230. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g Leček, Suzana (1993). "DOŠEN, Marko". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
Further reading
edit- Ravlić, Slaven. "Došen, Marko". Tko je tko u NDH (in Croatian). pp. 95–96.