Stanko Vraz

Jakob Frass, who Slavicized his name as Stanko Vraz in 1836, was born on 30 June 1810 in Cerovec, in Slovene Styria. He studied philosophy in Graz and came to speak German, French, Spanish and several Slavic languages. His first Slovene poems were rejected in Ljubljana; a journey to Croatia in 1833 won him over to the Illyrian movement, and from 1837 he wrote only in Croatian. Settled in Zagreb, he was the first man of letters in the country to live by his pen, launched the magazine Kolo in 1842 and was secretary of the Matica ilirska from 1846. He never married and died of consumption on 20 May 1851.

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• PoetryĐulabijeStanko Vraz · 1840not translated into EnglishLiterature