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Josip Runjanin

1821 - 1878

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Josip Runjanin (8 December 1821 – 20 January 1878), born Josif Runjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Руњанин), was an Austrian career military officer, politician and composer of Serb origin best known for composing the melody of the Croatian national anthem, Lijepa naša domovino ("Our Beautiful Homeland"), in 1846. Runjanin received his education in Vinkovci and later in Sremski Karlovci. As a young man, he served in the Imperial Austrian Army as a cadet in the town of Glina, along the Military Frontier with the Ottoman Empire. While serving in Glina, Runjanin attained the rank of captain and became proficient in playing the piano. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josip Runjanin is the 692nd most popular composer (up from 954th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Croatia (up from 206th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Croatian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Josip Runjanin ranks 692 out of 1,451. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, Zbigniew Preisner, Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, Jerome Kern, and Maurice Emmanuel. After him are Augusta Holmès, Carmine Coppola, Xavier Cugat, Tielman Susato, Orazio Vecchi, and Riccardo Zandonai.

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Among people born in 1821, Josip Runjanin ranks 50. Before him are Ion C. Brătianu, Cyprian Norwid, Félix Ziem, George Williams, Vasile Alecsandri, and Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. After him are Clara Barton, Champfleury, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, Arthur Saint-Léon, Octave Feuillet, and Karel Havlíček Borovský. Among people deceased in 1878, Josip Runjanin ranks 36. Before him are Mindon Min, Mohammed bin Thani, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Gutzkow, Đura Jakšić, and Maurice Joly. After him are Anna Sewell, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, August Heinrich Petermann, Crawford Long, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Temistocle Solera.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Josip Runjanin ranks 141 out of 700. Before him are Marko Krizin (1589), Ante Trumbić (1864), Maximianus of Ravenna (499), Mirko Jozić (1940), Petar Nadoveza (1942), and Jakov Gotovac (1895). After him are Željko Čajkovski (1925), Ivo Lola Ribar (1916), Petar Preradović (1818), Andrea Schiavone (1510), Duje Bonačić (1929), and Franjo Kuharić (1919).

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Among COMPOSERS In Croatia

Among composers born in Croatia, Josip Runjanin ranks 5. Before him are Franz von Suppé (1819), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904), Ivan Zajc (1832), and Jakov Gotovac (1895). After him are Vatroslav Lisinski (1819), and Krešimir Baranović (1894).

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