Jovan Dučić
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| Born |
17 February 1871 Trebinje, Bosnia Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 7 April 1943 (aged 72) Gary, Indiana, USA |
| Resting place | Libertyville, Illinois (1943–2000) Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2000) |
| Occupation | Poet, writer and diplomat |
Jovan Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Дучић, pronounced [jǒʋan dûtʃitɕ]; 17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat.
Jovan Dučić was born in Trebinje at the time part of Bosnia Vilayet within the Ottoman Empire on 17 February 1871.
In Trebinje he attended primary school. He moved on to a high school in Mostar and trained to become a teacher in Sombor. He worked as a teacher in several towns before returning to Mostar, where he founded (with writer Svetozar Ćorović and poet Aleksa Šantić) a literary magazine called Zora (Dawn).
Dučić's openly expressed Serbian patriotism caused difficulties with the authorities—at that time Bosnia-Herzegovina was de facto incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire—and he moved abroad to pursue higher studies, mostly in Geneva and Paris. He was awarded a law degree by the University of Geneva and, following his return from abroad, entered Serbian diplomatic service in 1907. Although he had previously expressed opposition to the idea of creating Yugoslavia, he became the new country's first ambassador to Romania (in 1937). He had a distinguished diplomatic career in this capacity, serving in Istanbul, Sofia, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Madrid and Lisbon. Dučić spoke several foreign languages and he is remembered as a distinguished diplomat. His Acta Diplomatica (Diplomatic Letters) was published posthumously in the United States (in 1952) and in the former-Yugoslavia (in 1991).
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