Franjo Marković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franjo Marković

Croatian philosopher and writer

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1845

Place of Birth: Križevci, Koprivnica-Križevci County, Croatia

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1914

Profession: writer, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Franjo Markovic (or Franjo pl.
Markovic; Križevci, July 26, 1845 – Zagreb, September 15, 1914) was a Croatian philosopher and writer. He was an academician, the first professor of philosophy at the renovated University of Zagreb in 1874.
The defender of the identity of philosophy as a metaphysical discipline, as opposed to scholasticism on one side, and positivism and materialism on the other side. His greatest philosophical work is the Razvoj i sustav obcenite estetike ("The development and the system of general aesthetics"), which heavily influenced the development of Croatian philosophical thought due to its extensive and all-encompassing overview of the history of aesthetics in Croatian language, and the introduction of new philosophic terms.
He is the founder of the research of Croatian philosophic heritage. As a writer, he is noted for his lyric-reflexive poetry, epic compositions and dramas.
He is a characteristic Romanticist ("national-romantic spirit"), and in the poetry he is noted as an ardent follower of Adam Mickiewicz.