Aleksa Šantić

Aleksa Šantić ; 27 May 1868 – 2 February 1924) was a Bosnian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing national awareness of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Serbs, social injustice, nostalgic love, and the unity of the South Slavs. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zora (1896–1901). Šantić was one of the leading persons of Serbian literary and national movement in Mostar. In 1914 Šantić became a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.

27 May 1868

Born on the same birth day (27 May): Allan Carr • Blake Ahearn • Chiang Chien-ming • Eddie Harsch • Emperor Dezong of Tang • Feryal Özel • Jaan Kärner • Maria Walliser • Nathaniel Gorham • Nobel Prize in Physics • Pauline Hanson • Peter DeFazio • Ramsey Lewis • Rebekah Brooks • Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns • Siouxsie Sioux • William Stanier

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