August Šenoa

August Šenoa was born in Zagreb in 1838. His father, who came from Bohemia, was the bishop's confectioner, his mother came from Slovakia, and German was the language of the household. He studied law in Prague, with a scholarship from Bishop Strossmayer, without ever finishing, returned to Zagreb in 1866 and became the central man of letters of the country there: dramaturge of the national theatre, municipal senator in 1873, editor of the journal Vienac from 1874 until his death. The earthquake of 9 November 1880 found him a senator; he ran through the rubble for weeks, fell ill and died in December 1881, at forty-three.

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• NovelZlatarovo zlatoAugust Šenoa · 1871not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain