Đuro Feric

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Đuro Ferić (born June 5, 1739 in Dubrovnik ; † March 13, 1820 there ) was a poet and Jesuit .

Life

Đuro Ferić is one of the so-called "Croatian Latinists" and left an extensive body of work. During his lifetime he was also known and valued outside of his homeland, but has largely been forgotten due to the nationally oriented Croatian literary historiography. As the son of a merchant family, Ferić was one of the few known Ragusans who did not belong to the nobility. Because of his sympathy with the French republic , he came into conflict with the leadership of the aristocratic republic.

Ferić attended the Collegium Ragusinum in Dubrovnik (Ragusa), entered the Jesuit order in 1755 and then studied theology and philosophy at the Illyrian College in Loreto . In 1762 he was ordained a deacon in Dubrovnik and a priest in the same year. After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, Ferić taught Latin literature , grammar and rhetoric at the Dubrovnik grammar school, the former Jesuit college. In 1791 he took over the management of the Sveta Klara monastery, an educational institution for daughters of the Ragusan nobility. In 1808 and 1815 he took over other church offices in Dubronik itself and the Dizese Ston .

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Ferić's work is mostly in Latin: the early literary works originate from his activity as a teacher: they are Latin paraphrases of the Latin classics that are part of school reading. Between 1791 and 1803 Ferić's works in Latin appeared that made him known beyond the borders of the Republic of Ragusa : a psalm paraphrase, fables, several epistles and a description of the coast of Ragusa written in hexameters . He was also interested in epigrammatics , proverbs and fables. Towards the end of his life, however, Ferić increasingly wrote in his mother tongue or dealt with it. Ferić wrote the first extensive collection of folk songs from southern Slavonia , which he was unable to publish during his lifetime. It consists of 30 epic and 39 lyrical songs, most of which he collected or had written down in Bosnia, as well as 13 songs from the collection of Andrija Kačić Miošić Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga . All songs are available in the Croatian original as well as Ferić's Latin translation, whereby Ferić made interventions in the Croatian language with the aim of following Bartol Kašić to establish an Ikavian-štokavian literary language. Some of Ferić's works are still unedited, such as large collections of Latin fables and epigrams. Some satires and sonnets are lost.

Publications

  • Paraphrasis psalmorum poetica , Ragusa 1791, Zagreb 1796 and Würzburg 1802
  • Georgii Ferrich Rhacusani Fabulae from illyricis adagiis despumptae, Ragusa 1794
  • Ad clarissimum virum Joannem Muller Georgii Ferrich Ragusini Epistola , Ragusa 1798
  • Ad clarissimus virum Julium Bajamontium Spalatnesem Georgii Ferrichi Ragusini Epistola , Ragusa 1799
  • Ad clarissimum virum Michaelum Denisum Vindelicum Georgii Ferrich Ragusini epistola , Vienna 1798, Ragusa 1824
  • Periegesis orae Rhacusanae , Ragusa 1803

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivan Pederin: Đuro Ferić kao pjesnik hrvatskih fiziokrata i jedan od zacetnika hrvatskog narodnog preporoda , in: Anali historijskog instituta JAZU un Dubrovniku 21 , 1983, 225-250
  2. ↑ Slavica Poematia latine reddita. An early South Slavic folk song collection . Ed. Gudrun Wirtz, Cologne a. a. 1997, ISBN 3412094978
  3. ↑ Overview of Ferić's complete works: Slavica poematia (see above), pp. 532–558
personal data
SURNAME Feric, Đuro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferić Gvozdenica, Đuro; Feric, Juraj; Ferich, Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dalmatian poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubrovnik
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1820
Place of death Dubrovnik