Matija Antun Reljković

Matija Antun Reljković was born on 6 January 1732 in Svinjar, a village on the Sava now called Davor, the son of an officer of the Military Frontier. He received his schooling from the Franciscans of Cernik, joined the Austrian army at sixteen and rose to the rank of captain. Captured at Breslau during the Seven Years' War, he underwent a fairly mild captivity, which became his years of apprenticeship: a voracious reader, he read Voltaire, Bayle and Diderot there. Joseph II ennobled him in 1785 and he added von Ehrendorf to his name. Retired from service the following year, he lived in Vinkovci until his death in January 1798.

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• PoetrySatir iliti divji čovikMatija Antun Reljković · 1762not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain