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2 unusual facts about Matija Mažuranić


Matija Mažuranić

Symptoms of mind degeneration have started to show, and he died at the sanatorium of a well-known psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, near Graz, on April 17, 1881.

By travelling in 1839 to Bosnia (from Karlovac, Sisak and Kostajnica, over Belgrade, on foot and horse, to Sarajevo, Travnik, over Romanija up to Zvornik) - Mažuranić has in a vernacular way, with no external stimulus or literary influences, as a connoisseur of vernacular literary genius, managed to create a piece which can be read both as an adventure and as a realistic account of seen and experienced.



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