Grgo Martić also known as Grga Martić (born 1822 - died 1905) was a friar

Friar

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 and writer from Herzegovina

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Martić was born in Posušje

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, Bosnia Province

Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire

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, Ottoman Empire

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 and was educated in Zagreb

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 and Pest

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. He was ordained on Christmas Day, 1844. He served for three years in Kreševo and Osova.

From 1851 to 1879 he served as a parish priest in Sarajevo

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. He performed the majority of his life's work in Bosnia

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, in the Franciscan monastery in Kreševo

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Martić worked as a writer and translator, translating works by Homer

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 and Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 into the Croatian language

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