Jovan Dučić

Bosnian Serb writer and diplomat

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Born: ( 1872-02-15 ) 15 February 1872, Trebinje , Bosnia Vilayet , Ottoman Empire , (now Bosnia and Herzegovina )
Died: 7 April 1943 (1943-04-07) (aged 72), Gary, Indiana , U.S.
Resting place: Hercegovačka Gračanica monastery (since 2000)
Pen name: Krum, J. D. Glogovac
Occupation: Poet, writer, diplomat
Nationality: Serbian
Alma mater: University of Geneva

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Instance of: human
Given name: Jovan
Gender: male
Citizenship: Austria–Hungary
Place of birth: Trebinje
Place of death: Gary
Occupation: teacher
Educated at: University of Geneva
Languages spoken: Serbian
Native language: Serbian
Field of work: diplomacy
Image: Ducic.jpg

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name in native language: Јован Дучић
place of burial: Hercegovačka Gračanica
Commons category: Jovan Dučić
date of birth: 1871-02-17
date of death: 1943-04-07
member of: Romanian Academy
described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Jovan Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Дучић, pronounced [jǒʋan dûtʃitɕ]; 15 February 1872 – 7 April 1943) was a Bosnian Serb poet-diplomat and academic.

He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets. Dučić published his first collection of poetry in Mostar in 1901 and his second in Belgrade in 1908. He also wrote often in prose, writing a number of literary essays, studies on writers, letters by poets from Switzerland, Greece and Spain and the book Blago cara Radovana for which he is most remembered when it comes to his writing.

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