Sava Bjelanovic
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Sava Bjelanović (Serbian
Cyrillic: Сава Бјелановић) was an Adriatic
Serbian
writer and politician, the leader of the coastal Serb Party and the most prominent Dalmatian Serb
of the 19th century.
He was a contemporary of well-known Dalmatian politicians and writers such as Đorđe Vojnović, Konstantin Vojnović
, Dušan Baljak, Robert Ghiglianovich, Niccolò Trigari, and Luigi Ziliotto.
in Dalmatia
on the 15th of October 1850, and has retained a two-fold fame as a writer and politician. He represents a classical reaction against decadent romanticism in literature and an anticlerical rationalism in general thought. As a politician he represented Serbs of both Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic denominations in the Diet of Dalmatia. He also wrote a book which exposed the excesses of the Habsburg Monarchy
in the later half of the nineteenth century. In his editorials and speeches he gave a tremendous impetus to learning by his dedicated search for truth and by his exposition of a critical method.
Although trained in law at the University of Vienna, Bjelanović decided to make a career in literary journalism and politics. He was remarkably active and effective as a newspaper publisher and writer, having founded the Srpski list (Serbian News) and Srpski glas (Serbian Voice). His editorials were widely read for his fearless attacks on the unwisdom of Austrian policy and the injustices done by the Austrian authorities to the Dalmatians (Croats, Serbs and Italians, all equal citizens of the province).
Bjelanović completed his elementary and high school education in Italian in Zadar
, the then capital of Dalmatia. He studied law in Vienna, and returned home in 1880 to open his practice in Zadar. There he spent the next seventeen years battling injustices and championing human rights among his people. Sava Bjelanović had a distinct political objective when in 1880 he established the newspaper called Srpski list (Serbian News). And it is equally well-known that his Srpski glas (Serbian Voice) was, under a different form, a continuation of Srpski list, which was supressed in 1888. Both newspapers were very popular and influential, especially the Glas which continued eight years after Beljanović's death, before it became a victim of political power play. In 1883 Bjelanović was elected in the Dalmatian parliament. The greatest success of his political party was the 1890 elections in Dubrovnik, where his party won a decisive victory. He was one of the co-founders of the Dalmatian Lazarica Serbian Orthodox Church and headed regularly its Vidovdan
(Saint Vitus's Day) councils. He died in the city where he spent most of his life -- Zadar -- in 1897. He was buried in his birth village of Đevrse near Knin.
Serbian language
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Cyrillic: Сава Бјелановић) was an Adriatic
Adriatic Sea
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Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
writer and politician, the leader of the coastal Serb Party and the most prominent Dalmatian Serb
Serbs of Croatia
Višeslav of Serbia, a contemporary of Charlemagne , ruled the Županias of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim, his ancestral lands. According to the Royal Frankish Annals , Duke of Pannonia Ljudevit Posavski fled, during the Frankish invasion, from his seat in Sisak to the Serbs in western Bosnia, who...
of the 19th century.
He was a contemporary of well-known Dalmatian politicians and writers such as Đorđe Vojnović, Konstantin Vojnović
Konstantin Vojnović
Konstantin pl. Vojnović was a Serbian-Croatian politician, university professor and rector.Vojnović was born in Herceg Novi into the of Serbian noble family House of Vojnović, who converted from Serbian Ortodoxy to Roman Catholicism by his grandmother.He graduated law at the University of Vienna...
, Dušan Baljak, Robert Ghiglianovich, Niccolò Trigari, and Luigi Ziliotto.
Biography
Sava Bjelanović was born at Đevrske near KninKnin
Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at , in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as a one-time capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the...
in Dalmatia
Dalmatia
Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....
on the 15th of October 1850, and has retained a two-fold fame as a writer and politician. He represents a classical reaction against decadent romanticism in literature and an anticlerical rationalism in general thought. As a politician he represented Serbs of both Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic denominations in the Diet of Dalmatia. He also wrote a book which exposed the excesses of the Habsburg Monarchy
Habsburg Monarchy
The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918. The Imperial capital was Vienna, except from 1583 to 1611, when it was moved to Prague...
in the later half of the nineteenth century. In his editorials and speeches he gave a tremendous impetus to learning by his dedicated search for truth and by his exposition of a critical method.
Although trained in law at the University of Vienna, Bjelanović decided to make a career in literary journalism and politics. He was remarkably active and effective as a newspaper publisher and writer, having founded the Srpski list (Serbian News) and Srpski glas (Serbian Voice). His editorials were widely read for his fearless attacks on the unwisdom of Austrian policy and the injustices done by the Austrian authorities to the Dalmatians (Croats, Serbs and Italians, all equal citizens of the province).
Bjelanović completed his elementary and high school education in Italian in Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...
, the then capital of Dalmatia. He studied law in Vienna, and returned home in 1880 to open his practice in Zadar. There he spent the next seventeen years battling injustices and championing human rights among his people. Sava Bjelanović had a distinct political objective when in 1880 he established the newspaper called Srpski list (Serbian News). And it is equally well-known that his Srpski glas (Serbian Voice) was, under a different form, a continuation of Srpski list, which was supressed in 1888. Both newspapers were very popular and influential, especially the Glas which continued eight years after Beljanović's death, before it became a victim of political power play. In 1883 Bjelanović was elected in the Dalmatian parliament. The greatest success of his political party was the 1890 elections in Dubrovnik, where his party won a decisive victory. He was one of the co-founders of the Dalmatian Lazarica Serbian Orthodox Church and headed regularly its Vidovdan
Vidovdan
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(Saint Vitus's Day) councils. He died in the city where he spent most of his life -- Zadar -- in 1897. He was buried in his birth village of Đevrse near Knin.