Petar Preradovi\u0107, an Austro-Hungarian general, candidate for the position of the Croatian Ban and a poet, who participated in pacifying the Italian revolution, was born on March 19, 1818 in a small village in the former Military Frontier of Krajina, called Grabrovnica near \u0110ur\u0111evac. His parents were of the orthodox faith and originated from the Grubi\u0161no polje area. However, during his schooling at the military academy in Be\u010dko Novo Mjesto (Wiener Neustadt), Preradovi\u0107 had to convert to the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n
Upon his graduation from the academy, Preradovi\u0107 was assigned to a Hungarian regiment, which was stationed in Milan. During his first poetic phase, which spans the period from 1834 to the beginnings of his writing in the Croatian language in 1843, Preradovi\u0107 wrote in German and was inspired by motifs from Schiller\u2019s work, but was also influenced by Byron and the Czech poet K.H. Mach. Upon his arrival in Milan, Preradovi\u0107 met Ivan Kukuljevi\u0107 Sakcinski, also a military officer who helped him rediscover the Croatian language and its riches. Kukuljevi\u0107 persuaded Preradovi\u0107 to translate almost the entire first canto of the Gunduli\u0107\u2019s epic poem Osman into Croatian. It is very probable that Preradovi\u0107 would never have become a poet if he was not transferred from Milan to Zadar where he met Ante Kuzmani\u0107 form Split, who asked him to write a poem about ‘our language’ for the local newspaper Zora Dalmatinska. On that occasion, he wrote one of his best known poems Zora puca, bit \u0107e dana (Dawn is Breaking, Day will Come). This poem was published in 1844 in the first publication of Zora Dalmatinska and it received excellent reactions not only in Dalmatia, but also in Croatia, so much so that Ljudevit Gaj decided to reprint it in the Danica Ilirska weekly, which represented great recognition of both the poet and Zora Dalmatinska.<\/p>\n
During those years, Preradovi\u0107 established connections with a number of prominent members of the Illyrian movement including Stanko Vraz, Ljudevit Gaj, Bogoslav \u0160ulek and others. He sent his poems to them, especially to Vraz, asking for their edits. In 1845, Preradovi\u0107 published his first collection of poems Prvienci, which contained 37 poems.<\/p>\n
After a long break from poetry, Preradovi\u0107 returned to writing in 1860. During that year he published a notable poem Rodu o jeziku and in 1861 the poem Jezik roda moga. Towards the end of his lifetime he wrote a group of sonnets Milim pokojnicima, featuring 28 notable Croatian figures of the first half of 19th century. In 1870 the poet moved to his last address in Vienna. He became gravely ill in 1871 and the following year he passed away. Preradovi\u0107 was first buried in Vienna and in 1879 his remains were transferred to Zagreb, where he was buried on 23 May of 1895.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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