Matija Antun Relković
Matija Antun Relković (also Reljković; 6 January 1732 – 22 January 1798) was Habsburg military officer and a Croatian writer. Early life and military career Born in the village of Davor, Croatia, Davor in Kingdom of Slavonia (today a part of Croatia) as a son of a Military Frontier officer, Relković too enlisted in the Austrian army at the age of 16. He fought in the Seven Years' War until he was captured by Prussians in Wrocław (Breslau), and spent a few years of rather "relaxed" imprisonment at Frankfurt (Oder). Relković's prison years became his ''Lehrjahre'', his educational period: a voracious but unsystematic reader, he studied many works by leading Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writers (Voltaire, Pierre Bayle, Bayle, Denis Diderot, Diderot), as well as Polish poet Jan Kochanowski's didactic epic ''Satir''- which became the model for his most famous work. After the release, Relković spent a few more years on war campaigns (this time Bavaria), but eventually sat ...
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Croatia
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