Aleksa Kokic

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Aleksa Kokić (born October 14, 1913 in Subotica , † July 17, 1940 in Cetinje ) was a writer , poet , prose writer and essayist of the Bunjewatzen . He wrote the plays and translated into Czech , Slovak , Hungarian and German .

He attended elementary school in Subotica. He passed the Abitur in the Jesuit high school in Travnik .

Kokić studied theology in Zagreb . During his studies he was ordained a priest by Bishop Lajčo Budanović . After that he was a priest in Subotica.

Later he studied again in Zagreb, this time Slavic Studies .

He died suddenly during a military maneuver as part of his regular military service.

Aleksa Kokić was the ideologue of the Croatian Bunjewatzen. His stanzas are on a plaque in Subotica "Hrvati bili smo uvijek - Hrvati odsad biti" on the building of the Pučka kasina .

Works

  • Klasovi pjevaju , (1936)
  • Zvona tihe radosti , (1938)
  • Bunjevci i Šokci , (1939) (with Marko Čović )
  • Slikovnica kršćanskog nauka (1939)
  • Srebrno klasje , (1962)

His works earned him a place in Geza Kikić's anthologies of prose and poetry by Bunievatian Croats .

literature

  • Geza Kikić: Antologija proze bunjevačkih Hrvata, Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 1971.
  • Geza Kikić: Antologija poezije bunjevačkih Hrvata, Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio Subotica: Donesen nastavni program "Bunjevački govor sa elementima nacionalne kulture" ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Bunjevci Croats in Backa
  3. ↑ Hrvatska revija Proslava 250. obljetnice doseljavanja veće skupine Bunjevaca (1686-1936)
personal data
SURNAME Kokic, Aleksa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Subotica
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1940
Place of death Cetinje