Luko Zore

Luko Zore (January 15 1846 –November 26 1906), was a Dalmatian Serb and Montenegrin philologist and Slavist, and was one of the leading opposition fighting against the foreign forces of Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik.

Born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) (Ragusavecchia/Cavtat), he was by birth a Catholic.

At that time there were two major intellectual trends in Dubrovnik as well as in the whole Croatia: one favoured the union of all the Slavic peoples, believing that they were of one nation (Illyrian movement), which was prevailing in Dubrovnik, and the second one was for Croatian state of Croatian people. Luko Zore was an active part of all the slavic associations available in that time in Dubrovnik, trying to fight the foreign political power and to develop the idea of national identity of the language and slavic origins. Zore was a professor in the High School in Zadar after 1878 he founding with Niko Pucic the review Slovinac (Slav), dedicated mainly to literature and the arts. Luko Zore was the editor. It was discontinued in 1884. He died in Cetinje, Montenegro.

Works

* Dubrovnikers are Serbs ("Dubrovčani su Srbi"), 1903, Dubrovnik