Grga Martić

Grga Martić

Grga Martić (born 1822, Posušje, Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire) was a Bosnian friar and writer from Herzegovina.

He was born in Posušje in 1822. After being educated in Zagreb and Pest he spent much of his life's work in Bosnia, in the Franciscan monastery in Kreševo.

Fra Grga Martić was one of key-persons for creating integral Bosnian nation from: Bosnian Orthodox, Bosnian Catholics and Bosnian Muslims.

Martić opened a school in Kreševo in 1847 and a gymnasium in Sarajevo. His most well-known literary work was "Osvetnici", an epic about the struggle against Ottoman rule.


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