Pavao Ritter Vitezovic ( Croatian. Pavao Ritter Vitezović ; January 7, 1652 - January 20, 1713 ) - Croatian writer , historian , linguist.
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Biography
Come from a military family. His ancestors were German knights (hence the surname Ritter) from Alsace . At the invitation of the Austrian dukes, they moved to Croatia, where they served in the border area, protecting the region from the Ottoman attacks. “Vitezovic” is the Croatian translation of the German word “Ritter”.
Pavao was born in 1652 in the town of Senj (Adriatic coast). Here I graduated from the beginning of school. In addition to German, he also knew Croatian (the bishop of the city received the right to teach Croatian at the local school from the Pope). Since 1665, Ritter studied at a Jesuit school in Zagreb, but did not complete his studies. In 1670 he went to Rome. In 1676 he moved to Krajina to the Bogenšperk castle, where he became interested in the history and geography of his homeland. In 1679 he returned to his hometown.
In 1681 he became a member of the Seny city council. In the same year, he represented the city at a meeting of Sabor in the city of Sopron. With the outbreak of the war against the Ottoman Empire in 1683, Ritter ended up in Medzhimursk . In 1684 he went to Linz, where he received the military rank of captain in the army of the Croatian ban . Subsequently, he took part in the capture of the Sigetvar and Lendava fortresses.
During the years 1685-1687. was a representative of the Croatian Sabor in Vienna. In 1687, a delegate of his native city at a meeting of the Hungarian Parliament in the city of Presburg (now Bratislava , Slovakia ). In the same year he was knighted, receiving golden spurs.
In 1690 he moved to Zagreb. Then he decided to resume the work of the city printing house. In 1691, he received the position of vice prefect of the Lika-Krbava district. In 1694 he was officially appointed head of printing in Zagreb. In the same year, Sabor was sent to Vienna to protest against tax increases. In 1698, he again delegated the Sabor of the imperial government regarding salt taxes.
In 1699, he was appointed by the Croatian Sabor, as his representative, to the Imperial Commission on Delimitation with Venice and the Ottoman Empire. However, despite the efforts, Pavao Ritter was unable to achieve the expansion of the borders of Croatia.
In 1695 he opened a new printing house. There were books in Latin and Croatian. The printing house worked until 1706, when it died in a fire. In 1710 he moved to Vienna, where he received the title of baron . He continued to study the geography of Serbia and Bosnia. In 1712, he again represented Senj in the Hungarian Parliament. Pawao Vitezovich died in 1713 in Vienna.
Creativity
Vitezovic wrote his works in Latin and Croatian. He was a patriot of Croatia. Numerous works of Vitezovich are devoted to her history (an essay in prose “Revived Croatia” in 1700 in honor of the victory over the Ottoman Empire, dedicated to Adam Zrinsky; “Calendar or book of the Croatian” 1695: “Capture of Sigetvara” 1684-1685 years, “Stemmatography” 1702 , “Bosnia in captivity” of 1712, “Two centuries of Croatia in mourning” of 1703, “Chronicle or history of centuries”). At the same time, he was interested in the stories of influential families in Croatia (“The History of the Gusich Family” in 1681).
Has a significant contribution to Croatian linguistics, proposed a new spelling, in which each sound corresponded to one letter. He is also the author of a handwritten Latin-Illyrian dictionary (during the life of the author it was not published).
Works
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Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 125828195 // Common Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Ritter, Paulus alias Vitezovich. Novus Skenderbeg . - 1682.
- ↑ Mirko Marković. Stari Zagrepčani: život na području Zagreba od prapovijesti do 19. stoljeća . - Nakl. Jesenski i Turk, 2005 .-- P. 168. - ISBN 978-953-222-218-0 .
Sources
- Anne Catherine Simpson: Pavao Ritter Vitezović: defining the national identity of the baroque age, Phd. D. thesis, University of London, 1991
- Biography of Pavao Ritter Vitezovich (inaccessible link) (Croatian)
- Ukratko - o autoru
- Vitezović kao jezikoslovac
- Priričnik (1696), iz predgovora
- Vjekoslav Klaić: Život i djela Pavla Rittera Vitezovića
- Kratki životopis
- Ivan Komersteiner - Ikonograf čudesno obnovljenog Hrvatskog Kraljevstva, Hrvatsko slovo, br. 1099 i br. 1100, 13. 5. 2016. i 20. 5. 2016.