Dr LAZAR-LAZA KOSTIĆ (Kovilj, 12 February 1841 – Vienna, 9 December 1909), writer, journalist, philosopher, political figure. He graduated from the Law studies at the University of Pest in 1864, where he became the doctor of law two years later. The distinguished member of the United Serbian Youth and the member of Miletić's Serbian National Liberal Party, he very early entered the poltical life of the Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the member of the Hungarian Parliament (1873). At the Conference in Berlin in 1878, he was the personal secretary of Jovan Ristić, and in 1880 the secretary of Serbian embassy in Petrovgrad. Between 1880 and 1891 he was the citizen of two Serbian countries, Serbia and Montenegro. He came to live in Sombor when he married rich girl, Julijana-Julča Palanački in September 1895 and spent the rest of his life there. It was in Sombor that he wrote his hallucinatory night book, Dnevnik snova (Dreams Diary), and the immortal poem of the Serbian Literature, Santa Maria della Salute.
The most prominent poet of the Serbian Romanticism, Laza Kostić, during his life, published three poetry books: Pesme (Poems), in 1873,1874 and 1909. A tragedian and comedist, he wrote two historical dramas, Maksim Crnojević (1866) and Pera Segedinac (1882), and two comedies, Gordana (1889) and Okupacija (Ocupation) (written in German in 1878/79, and for the first time published in 1977). His philosophical and aestetic ideas he explained in papers: The basis of beauty in everything with special attention to Serbian national songs (1880) and The basic principle (1884). In the book About Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Zmajovi), his poetry, thinking and writing, and about his time (1902), apart from the lucid analysis of Zmaj's poetry, he gave a vivid picture of the romantic epoch and developed the earlier theses about the interweaving of poetry and philosophy in a special theory of the artistic inspiration. The speaker of many clasical and modern languages, he translated Homer, Shakespeare, Bulver, Heine, Kiš and Dernburg.
Dr LAZAR-LAZA KOSTIĆ (Kovilj, 12 February 1841 – Vienna, 9 December 1909), writer, journalist, philosopher, political figure. He graduated from the Law studies at the University of Pest in 1864, where he became the doctor of law two years later. The distinguished member of the United Serbian Youth and the member of Miletić's Serbian National Liberal Party, he very early entered the poltical life of the Serbs in Vojvodina. He was the member of the Hungarian Parliament (1873). At the Conference in Berlin in 1878, he was the personal secretary of Jovan Ristić, and in 1880 the secretary of Serbian embassy in Petrovgrad. Between 1880 and 1891 he was the citizen of two Serbian countries, Serbia and Montenegro. He came to live in Sombor when he married rich girl, Julijana-Julča Palanački in September 1895 and spent the rest of his life there. It was in Sombor that he wrote his hallucinatory night book, Dnevnik snova (Dreams Diary), and the immortal poem of the Serbian Literature, Santa Maria della Salute.