Medo Pucić

Medo Pucić ( born March 12, 1821 in Dubrovnik ( Old German: Ragusa), Dalmatia, † March 30, 1882 ) was a writer and politician. His brother was Niko Pucić.

Life

Pucić came from an old patrician family of Ragusa, the Lyceum visited in Venice, where she learned to know in January 1841 Kollár, became a devotee whose allslawischer ideas and pleaded to the Illyrian movement. From 1841 to 1843 he studied at the University of Padua and from 1843 to 1845 in Vienna, where he completed his law studies.

1846 to 1849 he lived at the courts of Lucca and Parma, then mostly in Dubrovnik. Pucić was in frequent contact with cultural and political circles in Banal Croatia, the rest of the monarchy and various European countries. After the 1860 made ​​renewal of political life in the Austro -Hungarian monarchy, he participated in the national movement in Dalmatia and the political process in Banal Croatia.

In the 1870s he lived again continuously in Dubrovnik and played a significant role in the cultural life of the city. In the view taken by Pucić Slavic and South Slavic ideas merged the principles of Slavic national movement of his time, especially the Croats, with the Slavic tradition of Dubrovnik. The traditional particularism of Dubrovnik, which was reluctant to unconditionally be allocated to the Croatian movement, coupled with the linguistic conceptions of his time who accept him, Dubrovnik and the whole area of ​​štokavischen dialect was a member of the Serbian nationality. In the Principality of Serbia, he saw the liberator of South Slavs from Ottoman rule.

Pucić wrote lyrical and epic poems, patriotic poetry, political essays and historical studies. The preferred motif in his work was the past of Dubrovnik. He translated literary works from several European languages ​​into Croatian and into Italian.