Hugo Badalić (18 September 1851 – 4 May 1900) was a Croatian writer.

Biography

Badalić attended primary school in his native city and Kostajnica, and the gymnasium in

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. After finishing the gymnasium he went to university in

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where he graduated with a degree in

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in 1874. The same year he was appointed as a teacher of the Grandy Gymnasium in Zagreb. In 1879 he served as a professor at the gymnasium in

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, returning in 1882 to Zagreb where he worked at the gymnasium in

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. From 1884, he served as the director of a female high school in Zagreb, and from 1896 as the first director of the newly established Grand Gymnasium in Zagreb's

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. He published writings in ''Agramer Tagblatt'', ''Napredak'', ''Hrvatska vila'', ''Velebit'' and many other periodicals. In 1884, he was elected to the committee of

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, where he edited a number of Matica's editions among which the collection of poetry ''Hrvatska antologija'' (Zagreb, 1892) can be singled out as the most notable. Badalić was the author of numerous literary discussions, recensions,

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articles, and together with

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, wrote the mandatory high-school handbook ''Poetika i stilistika za Hrvatsku čitanku za niže razrede srednje škole''. He also published a collection of romantic songs: "Zlatno doba" (publisher Franz Bondy, Wien).

Literary work

As a gymnasium student Badalić edited the periodical ''Ljiljan'' where he published his first poem in 1867 (''Berba''). He received literary recognition with the historic poem ''Panem et circenes'' (

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, 1874). Badalić's poetry, published in his ''Izabrane pjesme'' ("Selected poems", 1896), quite popular at the time, and also set to music according to Illyrian customs (Hatze, ''Ja ne znam što je majka mi''), is also represented in modern anthologies (Danica, 1973; Majka, 1973; Vječnotraž, 1975). His poetry encompasses various literary genres, including romantic (''Bolna djevojka''), odic (to

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), and elegies (''U Jurjevcu''), thematically mainly focussing to patriotic and occasional motifs. Based on the drama ''Nikolas Graf von Zriny oder die Belagerung von Sigeth'' by German Romanticist Theodor Körner, which premièred the opening of the new theatre building at St. Mark's Square in 1834, Badalić wrote the

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for the historical

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Nikola Šubić Zrinski Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi ( hu, Zrínyi Miklós, ; 1507/1508 – 7 September 1566), also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), was a Croatian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the tr ...

'' by

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(published in ''Hrvatski dom'', 1876). He was also a translator of theatrical pieces by

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and Deschamps,

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, and other authors.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Badalic, Hugo 1851 births 1900 deaths People from Slavonski Brod Croatian male poets Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery 19th-century Croatian poets 19th-century male writers Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translators of William Shakespeare University of Vienna alumni