Eugen Kumičić

Eugen Kumičić was born on 11 January 1850 in Brseč, on the Istrian coast, into a family of seafarers, and went through school in Italian in Rijeka, Koper and Zadar. He studied in Vienna, taught in the secondary schools of Split and Zadar, spent two years in Paris and six months in Venice between 1875 and 1878, then served as a soldier in Bosnia during the occupation. Settled in Zagreb in 1879, he taught French there until 1883, then lived by his pen and by politics: elected for the Party of Rights to the Croatian Diet, a feared orator, an opponent of Hungarian policy. He also signed with a pen name and died in Zagreb on 13 May 1904.

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• NovelOlga i LinaEugen Kumičić · 1881not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain