Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

Jovan Jovanović was born in Novi Sad in 1833. He studied law, then medicine, which he completed in 1870 and practised in Novi Sad, in Pančevo and in Futog. All his life he founded and edited periodicals, literary, satirical, political and for children, and one of his satirical newspapers gave him the nickname by which he is known. He was the first Serbian writer to compose verse for children. He translated Goethe, Heine, Pushkin and Lermontov. Married in 1862, he lost his wife ten years later, and their five children died in infancy. He died in Sremska Kamenica in 1904.

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• PoetryЂулићиJovan Jovanović Zmaj · 1864not translated into EnglishLiterature