Matija Ban (Serbian Cyrillic: Матија Бан; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a Serbo-Croatian poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.

Matija Ban
Native name
Матија Бан
Born(1818-12-16)16 December 1818
Dubrovnik, Austrian Empire
(now Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Died14 March 1903(1903-03-14) (aged 84)
Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
(now Belgrade, Serbia)
Occupationwriter, diplomat
Notable worksCvijeti Srbske (1865); Vanja (1868)

Ban was born in Petrovo Selo near Dubrovnik, then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in the Austrian Empire, now in Croatia.[1] After working as a language teacher in Greek schools in Constantinople and Bursa,[2] Matija Ban settled in Serbia in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term "Yugoslav", in a poem in 1835.[3] In 1848 he came from Serbia to Dalmatia to study the state of national sentiment there. He returned to Belgrade in 1850 to teach at the Lyceum.[4]

His best known literary works include 14 dramas and tragedies related to Slavic history (Miljenko i Dobrila, 1850; Mejrima ili Bošnjaci, 1851; Car Lazar, 1858; Marta Posadnica, 1871; 1880; Jan Hus, 1884, etc).[5]

Matija Ban was a member of the Society of Serbian Letters (1858), Serbian Learned Society (1864), and Serbian Royal Academy (1892).[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Ban, Matija (in Croatian). Hrvatska enciklopedija. Accessed March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Ban Matija". www.sanu.ac.rs. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  3. ^ Anzulovic, Branimir (2000). Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. Australia: Pluto Press Australia. p. 195. ISBN 1-86403-100-X.
  4. ^ "BAN, Matija - Hrvatski biografski leksikon". hbl.lzmk.hr. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Ban, Matija - Hrvatska enciklopedija". www.enciklopedija.hr. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

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