Grgo Martić | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Ljubomir Martić (1822-01-24)24 January 1822 |
| Died | 30 August 1905(1905-08-30) (aged 83) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Order | Franciscan |
| Ordination | 1845 |
Grgo Martić (24 January 1822 – 30 August 1905), also known asGrga orMato Martić,[1][2] was a Bosnianfriar,writer, andtranslator in theFranciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena.[1] During his lifetime, Martić earned a nicknameBosnian Homer.[3]
He was born asLjubomir Martić in the village ofRastovača, nearPosušje, in theEyalet of Bosnia, then a part of theOttoman Empire. He studied philosophy inZagreb before completing his theology degree inStolni Biograd (nowSzékesfehérvár,Hungary).[1][2] He was ordained in 1845 inTravnik.
He served for three years inKreševo and Osova.
From 1851 to 1878, he served as a parish priest inSarajevo before settling at theFranciscan monastery St. Catharine inKreševo.[1][2] As a friar of theFranciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, Martić served the majority of his life, and carried out most of his work while at the monastery.[4][5]
In his youth, he was a supporter ofIllyrian movement as a nationalist and romanticist, before switching to a more moderate view.[1][4][5][6][3]
Martić worked as a writer and translator, translating works ofHomer,[1]Tolstoy, andGoethe into thepeoples vernacular language (narodni jezik). At the time of theAustro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was politically active on behalf of theCatholics of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
He opened a school inKreševo in 1847 and a gymnasium inSarajevo. His best-known literary work wasAvengers (Serbo-Croatian:Osvetnici), an epic about the struggle againstOttoman rule.[1]Martić made contributions toAlbanian culture as well, influencing young Albanian writerGjergj Fishta who attended Franciscan schools in Kreševo where he met Martić and Croatian writerSilvije Strahimir Kranjčević, who at that time also lived in Bosnia.[7][better source needed] Martić's work is included into bothBosnian-Herzegovinian andCroatian literary anthologies.
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