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Dimitrija Demeter | |
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| Born | Dimitrios Dimitriou 21 July 1811 Zagreb, Croatia, Austrian Empire (now Croatia) |
| Died | 24 June 1872 (aged 60) Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) |
| Pen name | Dimitrija Demeter |
| Occupation | Poet, dramatist |
| Language | Croatian |
| Period | 1831–1872 |
| Genre | romantic |
| Literary movement | Illyrian movement (Romantic nationalism) |
| Notable works | Grobničko polje (1842) Teuta (1844) |
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Dimitrios Dimitriou (Greek: Δημήτριος Δημητρίου, sometimes spelled Dimitrija Demeter or Dimitrije Demeter; 21 July 1811 – 24 June 1872) was a Greek-Croatian poet,[1] dramatist, short story writer and literary critic.[2] One of the most learned people of his time,[3] he played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation (then under Austro-Hungarian rule) as part of what he and his close friend and colleague Ljudevit Gaj called the Illyrian people by imposing the Croatian language in the local literacy and with the creation of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. His political activism for a Croatian national revival dealt through his participation in many patriotic pamphlets, most notably the Narodne novine and Hrvatski Sokol among many others.
- ^ Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 91.
- ^ "Grk u ilirskom kolu – rođendan Dimitrija Demetra" (in Croatian). National and University Library in Zagreb. 2011-07-22. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ Ivana Živančević-Sekeruš (January 1992). "Croatian Writers in the Byronic Mould". The Modern Language Review. 87 (1): 143–156. doi:10.2307/3732332. JSTOR 3732332.