Matija Ban (Serbian Cyrillic: Матија Бан; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a Serbo-Croatian poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.
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| Native name | Матија Бан |
| Born | 16 December 1818 Dubrovnik, Austrian Empire (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) |
| Died | 14 March 1903 (aged 84) Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia (now Belgrade, Serbia) |
| Occupation | writer, diplomat |
| Notable works | Cvijeti Srbske (1865); Vanja (1868) |
Ban was born in Petrovo Selo near Dubrovnik, then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in the Austrian Empire, now in Croatia.[1] After working as a language teacher in Greek schools in Constantinople and Bursa,[2] Matija Ban settled in Serbia in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term "Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835.[3] In 1848 he came from Serbia to Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He returned to Belgrade in 1850 to teach at the Lyceum.[4]
His best known literary works include 14 dramas and tragedies related to Slavic history (Miljenko i Dobrila, 1850; Mejrima ili Bošnjaci, 1851; Car Lazar, 1858; Marta Posadnica, 1871; 1880; Jan Hus, 1884, etc).[5]
Matija Ban was a member of the Society of Serbian Letters (1858), Serbian Learned Society (1864), and Serbian Royal Academy (1892).[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ban, Matija (in Croatian). Hrvatska enciklopedija. Accessed March 2022.
- ^ a b "Ban Matija". www.sanu.ac.rs. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Anzulovic, Branimir (2000). Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. Australia: Pluto Press Australia. p. 195. ISBN 1-86403-100-X.
- ^ "BAN, Matija - Hrvatski biografski leksikon". hbl.lzmk.hr. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "Ban, Matija - Hrvatska enciklopedija". www.enciklopedija.hr. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
Further reading
edit- Jovan Skerlić, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti/ A History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921), pages 199-201.
- Stjepan Ćosić. "Posljednji odjek - Katja Bakija: Knjiga o "Dubrovniku" 1849–1852". Kolo (in Croatian). Matica hrvatska. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008.
- Njegos.org Short Biography (in Serbian)