Laza Kostić

Laza Kostić ( born January 31, 1841 in Kovilj in Novi Sad, .. † 26 Novemberjul / 9 December 1910greg in Vienna) was a Serbian writer and nationalist politician.

Kostic was the son of an Austrian officer and completed the study of law, which he completed in 1866 with a doctorate in Pest. Along side Đura Jakšić Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and an important representative of Serbian Romanticism.

From 1873 to 1876 he was a deputy in the Parliament in Pest and one of the leaders of Ujedinjena omladina srpska (United Serbian Youth).