Petar Kočić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Petar Kočić

Bosnian Serb writer

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1877

Place of Birth: Stričići, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 27-Aug-1916

Profession: poet, politician, journalist, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Petar Kočić

  • Petar Kocic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ?????; 29 June 1877 – 27 August 1916) was a Bosnian Serb writer, activist and politician.
  • Born in rural northwestern Bosnia in the final days of Ottoman rule, Kocic began writing around the turn of the twentieth century, first poetry and then prose.
  • While a university student, he became politically active and began agitating for agrarian reforms within Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been occupied by Austria-Hungary following the Ottomans' withdrawal in 1878.
  • Other reforms that Kocic demanded were freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, which were denied under Austria-Hungary. In the 1900s Kocic led several demonstrations in Sarajevo and was imprisoned on three occasions for publishing newspaper tracts critical of Habsburg rule, after which he was released as part of a general amnesty.
  • He spent the majority of his imprisonment in solitary confinement, which contributed to his development of depression.
  • In 1910 Kocic won a seat in the newly created Bosnian Parliament (Sabor), where he became the leader of a faction of anti-Austrian Serb nationalists.
  • He lobbied for increased concessions to Bosnian Serb peasants and farmers, agitating against the Austro-Hungarians as well as the Bosnian Muslim landowning class.
  • He left the Sabor in 1913, citing mental exhaustion; in January 1914, Kocic was admitted into a Belgrade mental hospital, where he died two years later. Kocic was one of the most important Bosnian Serb politicians of the Austro-Hungarian era, as well as one of the most important South Slavic playwrights of the twentieth century.
  • He was noted for his fiery temperament and sharp wit, which he frequently deployed against the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
  • Kocic's works not only influenced an entire generation of Bosnian-Herzegovinian intellectuals, such as the future Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, but also the Serbian and Yugoslav nationalist movements, as well as the Bosnian autonomist and Yugoslav communist movements.
  • Numerous streets in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia carry his name, and his likeness has appeared on Bosnian 100 KM banknotes since 1998.

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