- Antun Karlo Bakotić
Antun Karlo Bakotić (
Kaštel Gomilica ,November 4 1831 -Zadar ,January 13 1887 ) was a Croatianwriter andphysicist .He studied mathematics and physics at
Vienna andVenice . He worked as a professor inRijeka , as well as managing the Velika Gimnazija inSplit and acting as school superintendent. He was one of the first inCroatia to publish an academic book about nature. In 1862 he arranged for printing the book "Pojavi iz prirode za pouku prostoga naroda" from the works of an Italian author.He wrote popular articles in his field in the magazine "Književnik". He collaborated with
Bogoslav Šulek on "Riječnika znanstvenog nazivlja" ("Dictionary of Scientific Terms"). Bakotić also published the book "Vinarstvo" . He was one of the chief members of the Croatian National Revival in southern Croatia. He campaigned for teaching Croatian inDalmatia n schools and was also a member of the "Narodni list" newspaper.His novel about Bosnian life with national liberation themes, "Raja" (
Dhimmis ),was published in installments in "Iskra" and "Hrvatska" and in entirety in "Dom i svijet".
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