Petar Preradović

Petar Preradović was born on 19 March 1818 in Grabrovnica, in the Military Frontier; the son of an Austrian non-commissioned officer, of an Orthodox family. His mother, widowed in 1828, sent him to the military academies of Bjelovar and then Wiener Neustadt, whose rules obliged him to change his confession. Commissioned in 1838, he served in Milan, Zadar, Zagreb and Vienna, and became a general in 1866; Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski introduced him to the literature of the revival. Widowed in 1855, he turned to spiritism, and died in Lower Austria on 18 August 1872; his granddaughter wrote the words of the Austrian anthem.

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• PoetryNove pjesmePetar Preradović · 1851not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain