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Dragutin Domjanić

Died in 1933

Dragutin Milivoj Domjanić was born on 12 September 1875 at Krči, now Adamovec, into a noble family of the Prigorje. He attended the Zagreb gymnasium as a boarder of the nobles' college, studied law there and defended his thesis in 1899. An examining magistrate, in 1906 he became a councillor at the Table of the Ban, the country's highest court. A member of the Yugoslav Academy, he presided over the Matica hrvatska from 1921 to 1926, then over the Pen club, and in the quarrel between the old and the moderns took the side of the young. He translated Goethe, Verlaine and Baudelaire, and died in Zagreb on 7 June 1933.

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