Ivan Stojanović

Ivan Stojanović
Born	17 December 1829 Dubrovnik
Died	December 1900 Dubrovnik, Austria-Hungary
Occupation	catholic priest, writer
Nationality	Serbian
Notable works	Dubrovačka literature

Ivan Stojanović (1829–1900) was a Catholic priest who wrote the book Dubrovačka Književnost, published in 1900. He was involved with the literary journal Slovinac.

Biography[]

Ivan "Ivo" Stojanović was born in Dubrovnik on 17 December 1829. He was taught in Dubrovnik and Zadar. At an early age he decided to take orders, becoming a priest upon his graduation from the Zadar Roman Catholic Seminary in 1852. He first spent a year in Korčula as a parish priest. After that he went to Rijeka where he spent the next thirty years. In his lifetime he befriended many politicians and men of letters, including Vlaho Getaldić, Luka Diego Sorkočević (grandson of the Dubrovnik composer) and Jozo Bunić. From 1883 until his death he was honoured and esteemed wherever he went.

Works[]

Dubrovačka Književnost (1900)

His reputation rests on his Dubrovačka Književnost (History of Literature in Dubrovnik), published in 1900 which has passed through many subsequent editions. He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, including the writings of St. Augustine, Aristophanes ("The Clouds"), Petronius, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Voltaire, Denis Diderot ("Rameau's Nephew"), Paul Louis Courier and Edmondo De Amicis.

Stojanović translated a German historical book Geschichte des Freystaates Ragusa. As a priest, historian and moralist, Stojanović divided his history of nineteenth-century Dubrovnik into three epochs: first, being the fall and death of Dubrovnik; second, the state of that moral body after death; and the rise of Dubrovnik from the ashes. Dubrovnik, of course, had beenin decline even before 1808, due, above all, to the lessening of its role as intermediary in Balkan and Levantine trade, and too to the falling of its merchant fleet in the Mediterranean.

See also[]

• Ignjat Job
• Matija Ban
• Milan Rešetar
• Vicko Adamović

References[]

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• Ivan Stojanović, "Dubovačka Književnost" (Publisher: Srpska Dubrovačka Akademska Omladina, 1900). Translated Ivo Stojanović's brief biography from the Introduction.