Mihovil Pavlinović
| Mihovil Pavlinović | |
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| Member of Diet of Dalmatia (Three terms) |
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In office 1861–1887 |
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| Member of Croatian parliament | |
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In office 1865–1867 |
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| Member of Imperial Council | |
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In office 1873–1879 |
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January 28, 1831 Podgora, Austrian Empire (now: Croatia) |
| Died | 18 May 1887 (aged 56) Podgora, Austria-Hungary (now: Croatia) |
| Political party | People's Party (1861-1887) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Priest, writer |
| Ordination | 23 September 1854 |
Mihovil Pavlinović was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, politician, and writer who led Croatian National Revival in the Kingdom of Dalmatia. He is known as a keen promoter of Croatian political thought in Dalmatia, one of the founders of People's Party and consistent advocate of unification of Kingdom of Dalmatia and Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
Mihovil Pavlinović was born in a small village of Podgora near Makarska on January 28, 1831 in a prominent peasant family. He finished primary school in Podgora, after which he attended minor seminary in Split where he finished gymnasium. He studied theology at the Major seminary in Zadar from which he graduated in 1854. During his time in seminary, Pavlinović began to take interest in the Illyrian movement. He and his friend Luka Botić (who later also become prominent writer and politician) founded students' society Pobratimi. Pavlinović was ordained to the priesthood on September 23, 1854 on the ceremony in Split Cathedral.
After ordination, Pavlinović shortly served as vicar in Drašnice. From 1855 to 1870, a time period during which he was entirely dedicated to political and literary work, he was officially vicar in Podgora. While travelling true his homeland, he had a chance to see all the difficulties that Croatian people had, such as the fact that all administration offices, municipalities, and schools were ran by foreigners.
Pavlinović entered politics after the failure of Bach's absolutism (1850-1859), which is known in Croatia as period of centralization and Germanization. In August 1860, he became the first prominent Croat in Dalmatia who publicly spoke about unification of Kingdom of Dalmatia and Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1861, Pavlinović, among others, founded People's Party as a Dalmatian branch of the People's Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, and as opposition to anti-Croatian Autonomist Party. Having acquired a wide favor, Pavlinović was elected as a member of Diet of Dalmatia on 1861 elections. As a member of Parliament he held speech in Croatian which sparked protests. It was later decided because of this that MP's can also speak the Croatian language, which was a great success of People Party considering immeasurably greater number of Autonomist Party MP's. On March 1, 1862, Pavlinović and his associates started publishing newspaper Narodni list as a Croatian-language part of the Italian-language newspaper Il Nazionale, periodico politico e letterario. Pavlinović was publishing articles intended to awake national consciousness of the Croatian people in Dalmatia. He was also writing for many other newspapers and magazines including Glasnik dalmatinski, Iskra, La Dalmazia cattolica, Narodni koledar, Obzor, Pozor, Vijenac, and Zatočnik. On 1865 Croatian parliamentary election, Pavlinović was elected to the Parliament. On 1873 Cisleithanian legislative election he was elected to the Imperial Council. During his term, he came into conflict with Serbian politician Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša because of Ljubiša's anti-Croatian stands. He was speaking Croatian in both, Croatian, and Imperial Parliament. Pavlinović's long-term struggle for the Croatian language has resulted in introduction of the Craotian language as an official in all Dalmatian state offices in year 1883.
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