Petar Preradović
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| Born |
19 March 1818 Grabrovnica, Pitomača, Slavonia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 18 August 1872 (aged 54) Fahrafeld, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Austria-Hungary |
| Resting place | Mirogoj, Zagreb, Croatia |
| Occupation | Poet, military officer |
| Language | Croatian |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Citizenship | Austria-Hungary |
| Period | Romanticism |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subject | Patriotism |
| Literary movement | Illyrian Movement |
Petar Preradović (19 March 1818 – 18 August 1872) was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was a part of the Illyrian movement which influenced much of his politics and work.
Preradović was born in the village of Grabrovnica near the town of Pitomača in what is today northeast Croatia, but was at the time part of the Austrian Military Frontier. He was born to Serb Orthodox parents of Jovan (Ivan) Preradović and Pelagija Preradović, and spent his childhood in Grubišno Polje, were his father was born. Like many from the Military Frontier area, he chose to become a professional soldier. Preradović enrolled at the Austrian military academy at Wiener Neustadt where he converted to Catholicism and went on to excel as one of the school's best students. At the academy, he began writing his first poems in German.
After graduation he was stationed in Milan where he met Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, a fellow Austrian officer from Croatia, who inspired him to start writing in Croatian. After Milan, Preradović was posted to Zadar where his writings were published in the local Croatian language newspaper Zora dalmatinska in 1846. He then went to Zagreb where he met the leading figures of the Illyrian movement. The champions of Illyrism, instrumental in securing the triumph of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Ljudevit Gaj, were Njegoš, Branko Radičević, Bogoboj Atanacković, Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša, Stanko Vraz, Ivan Mažuranić, and Preradović.
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