Ljubo Wiesner

Ljubo Wiesner ( born February 2, 1885 in Zagreb; † 3 July 1951, Rome) was a Croatian poet and translator.

He attended elementary school and high school, after which he briefly worked as a journalist in Zagreb. Wiesner was one of the founders of the literary magazines Grič ( Grič = Zagreb old town ), Kritika ( Eng.: The criticism ) and Savremenik ( Eng.: The Contemporary ), but mainly as editor of the poetry collection Hrvatska mlada lirika (English: Croatian young Poetry, 1914), known also contained poems by him. 1926 his only volume of poetry Pjesme (English: Poetry ) was published. He translated from German, French, Italian, Czech and Russian, including works by Walt Whitman, Émile Zola and Victor Hugo. During World War II he headed in Berlin the monthly Suradnja (German: cooperation). He spent years working on a biography of the Croatian poet Antun Gustav Matoš, who was his idol, but the work remained unfinished. Since 1948 until his death he lived in Rome.