Pavao Štoos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pavao Štoos

Croatian poet and Catholic priest

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1806

Place of Birth: Dubravica, Zagreb County, Zagreb County, Croatia

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1862

Profession: writer, priest, poet

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Pavao Štoos (10 December 1806 – 30 March 1862) was a Croatian poet, priest and a revivalist. After graduating theology in Zagreb, he served as a bishop's secretary for a brief period, and from 1842 he was a pastor of the Pokupsko parish. Štoos is a notable person among Croatian patriots; as the author of a well-known elegy Kip domovine vu pocetku leta 1831, collaborator of Ljudevit Gaj's Danica, he clearly articulated his concerns over the foreign oppression and the de-nationalisation of the common people (vre i svoj jezik zabit Horvati hote ter drugi narod postati).
Štoos pessimistically observes contemporary political and cultural movements, seeing the country as if trapped in the darkness of a dungeon (srce od placa ne mrem zdržati). Besides the literature, he was also engaged in music and has published in 1858 Kitice srkvenih pjesama s napjevima.
He is the author of the song "Poziv u kolo ilirsko". In 1862 he was appointed as a Zagreb canon, but he died before he managed to officially receive the title.