Petar KoÄić
Petar Kočić (Cyrillic Петар Кочић ) ( born June 29, 1877 in Stričići in Banja Luka; † August 27, 1916 in Belgrade ) was a Bosnian Serb writer.
Life
Kočić was a Serb from Bosnia. His mother died early and his father was then an Orthodox priest. Petar first visited the school in the monastery Gomionici, 1891 in Banja Luka and 1895 high school in Sarajevo, where he was expelled because of his Serbian nationalism of the school and therefore graduated in 1899 in Belgrade. Subsequently, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vienna. From this time he emerged as a writer, was short -time teacher in Skopje and two years later in Sarajevo Serb employee of the publisher Prosvjeta. After participating in a strike, he was released. In 1906 he took part in a congress of Yugoslav Writers in Sofia. In 1907 he founded the magazine OTADZBINA in Banja Luka. He also established a hostile Austria nationalist and social revolutionary political group and was founded in 1910 in the Bosnian parliament ( sabor ) selected. As opponents of the regime Kočić was finally sent to prison. Even before the First World War, a nerve disease developed. He was taken for treatment to Belgrade, where he died in a mental hospital in 1916.
Works
Was Kočić as a Serbian nationalist opponents of Austria-Hungary. His most famous work, the dramatized satire Jazavac sudom pred ( The Badger in court), enjoyed in 1908, after the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria, very popular. The satire directed against an overbearing and abusive, the language poorly speaking Austrian National Administration. Moreover wrote Kočić novellas and short lyrical prose, in which he often described primal - violent types his Bosnian homeland.
- Jazavac pred sudom, satirical drama 1904
- S i planina planina ispod ( С планине и испод планине ), stories 1907
- Jauci sa Zmijanja ( Јауци са Змијања ), stories 1910
- The Archpriest of Mracaj, narrative, dt, in: Croatian and Bosnian novellas, 1940
Afterlife
After Petar Kočić a library and a school were named in Banja Luka. A monument of the author is also located in the city. The Republika Srpska formed from Kočić on some banknotes. On the local edition of 100 Konvertibilnih Maraka Banknote his portrait can be seen.