Živko Bertić, also Živan Bertić (20 February 1875 – 25 October 1938) was a

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n and

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n politician, lawyer and writer.

Biography

Bertić was born on 20 February 1875 in

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, Croatia-Slavonia,

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(now Serbia). He studied law at the

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until he took part in the protest involving burning of a

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on the occasion of the 1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb—resulting in a prison sentence and expulsion from the university. He relocated to

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. There he edited ''Hrvatska misao'' and ''Novo doba'' journals and graduated from the

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. He obtained a doctoral degree in law from the

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in 1902 before pursuing a legal career—first briefly in judiciary in Mitrovica and then in his own law firm established in

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. Bertić was a member of the

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and the elected representative of the

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district in the

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in 1918. In the final days of the

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, he was appointed a member of the

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—the body established with the aim of political unification of the

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. Following proclamation of the newly established

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, Bertić was also appointed a member of the

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, a provisional legislative body of the new country in 1919–1920. He joined the

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, but left politics soon after. Bertić published short

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from the time of his secondary education in

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. He published some of his works under various

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s, especially as "Živan iz Srema" (lit. Živan from

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). His literary works include: * ''Zgode i nezgode jedne deputacije'', (1902) * ''Ženski udesi'', (1902) * ''Oszlicz Szillard i njegov certifikat'', (1911) * ''Na velike škole'', (1917) * ''Hrvatska politika'', (1927) * ''Predlog izvršenja na pokretnine'', (1936)

References

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