Pavao Ritter Vitezović
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| Born | Paulo Ritter 7 January 1652 Senj, Habsburg Monarchy |
| Died | 20 January 1713 (aged 61) Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy |
| Pen name | Paul Vitezović |
| Occupation | Writer, diplomat, advocate of expansionism |
Pavao Ritter Vitezović (Croatian pronunciation: [pâʋao rîter ʋitěːzoʋitɕ]; 7 January 1652 – 20 January 1713) was a noted Habsburg-Croatian writer, diplomat, and expansionist advocate.
Pavao Ritter Vitezović was born as Pavao Ritter in Senj, the son of a frontier soldier. His father was a descendant of an ethnic German immigrant from Alsace, and his mother was Croat.
He finished six grades of the Jesuit-run gymnasium in Zagreb before moving to Rome, where he stayed at the Illyrian College and met the renowned Dalmatian historian Ivan Lučić. He then moved to the castle of Bogensperk (German: Wagensberg) near the town of Litija in Carniola, where natural historian Johann Weikhard von Valvasor influenced him to study his national history and geography. There he also learned German and the skills of printing and etching.
In 1677 he wrote a treatise on the clan Gusići, published in 1681, the same year he wrote a number of poems for Father Aleksandar Mikulić, a Zagreb canon. As he developed a reputation of a learned man, his native town of Senj elected him as their representative in the Hungarian diet in Sopron. On 19 April 1683, due to the efforts of Ritter Vitezović, the diet proclaimed a charter granting the town of Senj their ancient rights, protecting them from the local military commander captain Herberstein who had terrorised the citizens at the time.
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