Ljubo Wiesner was a Croatian poet. He was a follower of Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš was a Croatian poet, short story writer, journalist, essayist and travelogue writer. He is considered the champion of Croatian modernist literature, opening Croatia to the currents of European modernism, and one of the greatest Croatian literary figures of all time.-Life:Matoš...

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He founded the publications Grič, Kritika and Savremenik. His introduction to Hrvatska mlada lirika in 1914 defined the poetic style of the followers of Matoš. Wiesner was also active musically, and played gusle

Gusle

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. Wiesner translated foreign poetry into Croatian, including works by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...

. He was an editor of Mate Ujević

Mate Ujevic

Mate Ujević was a Croatian poet and encyclopedist.Ujević finished gymnasium in Sinj and Split and studied literature in Zagreb. He bachelored in Ljubljana and finished his doctoral dissertation on poet Jovan Hranilović in Zagreb...

's Croatian Encyclopedia

Croatian Encyclopedia

The Croatian Encyclopedia is a Croatian encyclopedia which is currently published by the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute.The first Croatian Encyclopedia was begun in the 1930s in Zagreb by the publisher Mate Ujević. After the formation of the Banovina of Croatia the project received the...

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During World War II he worked on the Berlin-based Suradnja.
From 1948, until his death he lived in Rome at the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome

Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome

The Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome, in Italian the Pontificio Collegio Croato Di San Girolamo a Roma, is a Roman Catholic college, church and a society in the city of Rome intended for the schooling of Croatian clerics. It is named after Saint Jerome...

, where he organized the Vatican's radio program in Croatian

Croatian language

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Works

• Pjesme, Zagreb 1926.
• Pjesme, Zagreb 1943. (expanded edition)
• Izabrana djela, Zagreb 1970.
• Blago veče (izabrane pjesme), Zagreb 2001.
• Studija o A. G. Matošu (fragmenti), Zagreb 2002.
• Sabrana djela (pjesme, feljtoni, studije), Zagreb 2008.