Ivan Mažuranić

Ivan Mažuranić was born in 1814 in Novi Vinodolski, into a family of well-off peasants. He taught himself several languages, studied law, then practised as a lawyer in Karlovac. Having joined the Illyrian movement, he composed in 1844 the two cantos missing from the great baroque epic of Dubrovnik, that of Ivan Gundulić, and produced a dictionary with his brother-in-law. Politics then took him over entirely: as chancellor, then in 1873 as the first ban of the country who was not of noble birth, he carried out seven years of reforms of schooling, justice and the press, and ended his days in Zagreb in 1890.

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• PoetrySmrt Smail-age ČengićaIvan Mažuranić · 1846not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain