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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

1833 - 1904

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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Јовановић Змаj, pronounced [jɔ̌v̞an jɔv̞ǎːnɔv̞it͡ɕ zmâj]; 24 November 1833 – 1 June 1904) was a Serbian poet, translator and physician. Jovanović worked as a physician; he wrote in many poetry genres, including love, lyric, patriotic, political, and youth, but he remains best known for his children's poetry. His nursery rhymes have entered the Serbian national consciousness and people sing them to their children without knowing who wrote them. Jovanović also translated the works of some of the great poets, such as Russians Lermontov and Pushkin, Germans Goethe and Heine, and the American Longfellow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jovan Jovanović Zmaj is the 2,091st most popular writer (down from 1,791st in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Serbia (down from 106th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Serbian Writer.

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Among writers, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ranks 2,091 out of 7,302. Before him are Salvador de Madariaga, François Hotman, Marcus Tullius Tiro, Waldemar Bonsels, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Marjorie Boulton. After him are Yoshida Kenkō, Menasseh Ben Israel, Armin T. Wegner, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Ahmad ibn Mājid, and Thomas Merton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ranks 26. Before him are Carola of Vasa, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, and Marko Vovchok. After him are Prince Gong, Carlos Finlay, Eliza Lynch, Peter Waage, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, and Alfred Clebsch. Among people deceased in 1904, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ranks 42. Before him are Mór Jókai, Clemens Winkler, Herbert von Bismarck, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Wilhelm Marr, and Franz von Lenbach. After him are John Brown Gordon, William Renshaw, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, and Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ranks 121 out of 661. Before him are Milan Stojadinović (1888), Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria (1300), Mirko Cvetković (1950), Desanka Maksimović (1898), Mutimir of Serbia (830), and Svetozar Marković (1846). After him are Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (1928), Dengizich (395), Dejan Stanković (1978), Ceca (1973), Lola Novaković (1935), and Svetislav Pešić (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ranks 9. Before him are Danilo Kiš (1935), Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Branislav Nušić (1864), Radoje Domanović (1873), Charles Simic (1938), and Desanka Maksimović (1898). After him are Vasko Popa (1922), Đura Jakšić (1832), Isidora Sekulić (1877), Laza Kostić (1841), Laza Lazarević (1851), and Stevan Sremac (1855).

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