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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Ivan Mažuranić (1814–1890)

Mažuranić, Ivan (mä-zhö-rän’yich). The greatest of Croatian poets; born at Novi, 1814; died in 1890. He was procurator-general in 1850; president of the Croat-Slavonian high court of justice, 1861; governor, 1873–80. His chief work is the epic ‘Death of Smailaga Cengic’ [Jenghiz Khan] (1846; several editions), translated into Bohemian, Polish, Russian, Slovenic, and German. He wrote the notable political pamphlet ‘The Croats to the Magyars.’