Mihajlo Milan Šarić

Mihajlo Milan Šarić (born September 25, 1875 in Osijek , Croatia-Slavonia , † August 18, 1913 in Pakrac , today Croatia) was a Croatian writer and participant in the young Croatian literary movement in Prague.

Life

Šarić was born in 1875 in the Slavonian town of Osijek, which, like all of Croatia, was under Austro-Hungarian administration. In 1895, as a student in Zagreb, he took part in the burning of flags at Banja Jelačića on the state visit of the Austrian emperor. After his arrest, like many of his colleagues - including Stjepan Radić - he was expelled from the University of Zagreb for life.

Milan Šarić continued his philosophy studies in Prague . Together with other like-minded people such as Živan Bertić , Milan Heimrl , Svetimir Korporić , Franjo Poljak and the publisher František Hlavaček , he founded the politically critical newspaper Hrvatska Misao (newspaper for literary, political and social issues) , in which he wrote a very detailed and Naša književnost wrote sharp criticism of the Croatian literature of the time . His main criticism was related to the aristocracy and the lack of closeness to the people in the Croatian literature of that time.

Although the monthly newspaper Hrvatska Misao was mainly intended as a literary and cultural magazine, there were almost no articles of this kind to be read in it. This shows the almost utilitarian understanding of literature that then prevailed among these writers. Literature was subordinate to the important social questions. An elementary cultural change was required, such as the unification of all southern Slavs . The magazine was soon given the subtitle Journal of the United Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian Youth for Political, Social and Literary Issues , thus setting a prognostic sign for the Yugoslav future. The newspaper was soon banned because of its “socialist and anarchist tendencies”. In 1902 it was re-established under the editor Stjepan Radić and with the same staff as the previous papers. Šarić himself very quickly moved away from literary criticism and wrote some social science studies. The most important are The Study of Slavonian Peoples and the Life and Work of Dr. Ante Starčevićs .

He fell ill with tuberculosis and moved to live with his sister in Pakrac, in Slavonia , where he died at the age of 38.

literature

• Milorad Živančević, Ivo Frangeš: Povijest hrvatske književnosti. Sveučilišna naklada Liber, Zagreb 1975, pp. 99ff, pp. 18-20.
• Tomislav Šarić: Istinite Priče. 2000.