Matija Ban
Native name
Матија Бан
Born(1818-12-16)16 December 1818
Dubrovnik, Austrian Empire
(now Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Died14 March 1903(1903-03-14) (aged 84)
Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
(now Belgrade, Serbia)
Occupationwriter, diplomat
Notable worksCvijeti Srbske (1865); Vanja (1868)

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.

Ban was born in Petrovo Selo near Dubrovnik, then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in the Austrian Empire, now in Croatia.[1] 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.[2] In 1848 he came from Serbia to Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He is known for his Romanticist popular tragedies.

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References

  1. Ban, Matija (in Croatian). Hrvatska enciklopedija. Accessed March 2022.
  2. Anzulovic, Branimir (2000). Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. Australia: Pluto Press Australia. p. 195. ISBN 1-86403-100-X.

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