Pavao Štoos
Pavao Štoos (born December 10, 1806 in Dubravica near Zaprešić ; † March 30, 1862 in Pokupsko ) was a Croatian poet , priest and one of the most important people of the Illyrian movement in Croatia.
Life
Štoos left his parents' house in 1821 and moved to Zagreb , where he attended high school for seven years. He was one of the best students and later studied theology . After successfully completing his studies, he was ordained a priest (1833). From 1842 he worked as a pastor in Pokupsko, but soon after he was elected canon in Zagreb in 1862 , Štoos died in Pokupsko. He was buried there, but his remains were transferred to the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb in 1936 .
Works
His best-known poems include Kip domovine vu početku leta 1831 (German: picture of the homeland at the beginning of 1831 ) and Poziv u kolo Ilirsko (German: the call to the Illyrian dance ). He worked for Ljudevit Gaj's influential magazine Danica and was also active as a publisher and musician . In his works he wrote pessimistic about the political and cultural situation in Croatia, especially about the systematic oppression and alienation of the Croatian people ( vre i svoj jezik zabit Horvati hote ter drugi narod postati , dt .: now the Croatians want to forget their language and become another people ).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stoos, Pavao . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 180 ( digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Štoos, Pavao |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian poet, priest and one of the most important figures of the Illyrian movement in Croatia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dubravica , Zagreb County |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1862 |
| Place of death | Pokupsko , Zagreb County |