Ksaver Šandor Gjalski

Ljubomil Babić, who signed Ksaver Šandor Gjalski after the name of his mother's father, was born in 1854 in Gredice, near Zabok, in his family's country house; his family belonged to the lesser nobility of the Zagorje. He attended school in Varaždin, studied law in Zagreb and then in Vienna, and afterwards served in the administration in Virovitica, Pakrac, Sisak and Zagreb. He edited the journal Vienac with Milivoj Dežman in 1903, presided over the Society of Croatian Writers from 1909 to 1918, was elected to the Diet in 1906 and appointed grand prefect of Zagreb in 1917. He withdrew to his estates, where he died in 1935.

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• Short storiesPod starim krovovimaKsaver Šandor Gjalski · 1886not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain