Kosta Hadzi Ristic
Kosta Hadži-Ristić (Serbian Cyrillic: Коста Хаџи-Ристић; 1845-1870) was a Serbian philanthropist and an almost forgotten poet.[1]
He was born into an established, well-to-do Serbian merchant family in Sarajevo, where he received a good education. Kosta Hadži-Ristić, who in the École normale supérieure Gymnasium was a student of teacher Božidar Petranović, a collector of old Serbian songs. However, Hadži-Ristić, although very intelligent and talented, did not give Petranović the songs he wrote or collected, but kept them for himself. Unfortunately, he died early, at the age of 25, and his literary work fell into disfavor with time and oblivion.
Quite by chance, his travelogue "From Sarajevo to Tešnja" was found in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade during an inventory classification. Also found are "Folk songs collected around Bosnia" and "From Bosnia and about Bosnia"[2][3].
Hadži-Ristić, although young, was wealthy and he planned to give part of his wealth (mostly in imovable property) as far back as 1868 in the establishment of an Academy of Sciences and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina[4][5], while he donated the other part of his property to the then Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts for the publication of his works.
That Serbian academy, unfortunately, did not fulfill its duty in the right way, but still some of his poems were published in 1873. However, that book has also been almost completely forgotten.
References
- ↑ "Hadži Kosta Ristić". www.zapadnisrbi.com.
- ↑ Izraz. Hrvatska naklada. 1974.
- ↑ Whose Bosnia?: Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914. Cornell University Press. 30 September 2015. ISBN 9781501701115.
- ↑ Rad Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Jugoslavenska akademija zanosti i umjetnosti. 1869.
- ↑ https://slavistickikomitet.ba/bosnistika-knjige/13.%20Bo%C5%A1nja%C4%8Dka%20usmena%20lirika.pdf
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