Jovan Dučić
Jovan Dučić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јован Дучић ; born February 17, 1871 in Trebinje , Ottoman Empire ; † April 7, 1943 in Gary , USA ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav poet and diplomat from Bosnia and Herzegovina .
He was also a co-founder of Narodna Odbrana , a Serbian patriotic association that emerged in response to the Bosnian annexation crisis of 1908. In Yugoslav and Serbian literature, Dučić is considered to be one of the most important modern poets and lyricists . His poetry is influenced by the French Parnassians and symbolism .
biography
Jovan Dučić was born in Trebinje in Herzegovina , which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. His father Andrija was a merchant and died in the Herzegovinian uprising against the Ottomans of 1875. His mother Jovanka died in 1900. Dučić attended elementary school in Trebinje and then the commercial school in Mostar . He attended teachers' schools in Sarajevo and Sombor , where he graduated. As a teacher, he worked in several cities before returning to Mostar and together with the writer Svetozar Ćorović and the poet Aleksa Šantić published a literary magazine called Zora (Dawn). His openly displayed Serbian patriotism got him into trouble with the Austro-Hungarian authorities at the time , which is why he moved to higher studies abroad, namely Paris and Geneva . In Geneva he studied law before joining the diplomatic corps of the Kingdom of Serbia in 1907 . His diplomatic career for Serbia and later Yugoslavia took him to Istanbul , Sofia , Rome , Athens , Cairo , Madrid , Lisbon and the League of Nations . In 1937 Dučić became ambassador to Romania . Dučić spoke several foreign languages and he was postulated as a capable diplomat. In 1931 he became a permanent member of the Royal Serbian Academy , today's Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
With the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 , Dučić went into exile in the United States, to his relatives in Gary, Indiana. Until shortly before his death he headed in Chicago resident, of Mihajlo Pupin established Serbian National Defense Council of America (Serbian National Defense Council of America), where he especially tried on the crimes of the Ustasha to make -Regimes attention.
Jovan Dučić died on April 7, 1943 and was buried in the Serbian Orthodox cemetery of the Church of St. Sava is buried in Libertyville . In October 2000, according to his will, his remains were transferred to his place of birth Trebinje in the Herzegovinian Gračanica Monastery, which was built for this purpose and named after the monastery of the same name in Kosovo .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dučić, Jovan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Дучић, Јован (SrS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian-Yugoslav poet and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trebinje , Herzegovina , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1943 |
| Place of death | Gary , USA |