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{{Short description|Serbo-Croatian poet, dramatist and playwright}}
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| image = Poleskija Todorović - Matija Ban, GMS.png
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1818|12|16}}
| birth_place = [[Dubrovnik]], [[Austrian Empire]]<br>{{small|(now Dubrovnik, [[Croatia]])}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1903|03|14|1818|12|16}}
| death_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Kingdom of Serbia]]<br>{{small|(now Belgrade, [[Serbia]])}}
| occupation = writer, diplomat
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| notableworks = ''Cvijeti Srbske'' (1865); ''Vanja'' (1868)
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| native_name = Матија Бан
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'''Matija Ban''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Матија Бан}}; 6 December 1818 – 14 March 1903) was a [[Serbs|Serbo]]-[[Croats|Croatian]] poet, dramatist, and playwright. He is known as one of the earliest proponents of the [[Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik]].
Ban was born in [[Petrovo Selo, Dubrovnik|Petrovo Selo]] near [[Dubrovnik]], then in the [[Kingdom of Dalmatia]] in the [[Austrian Empire]], now in [[Croatia]].{{r|hrenc}} After working as a language teacher in Greek schools in Constantinople and Bursa,<ref name=":0" /> Matija Ban settled in [[Serbia]] in 1844. He is commonly regarded as being the first to use the term "[[wikt:Yugoslav|Yugoslav]]", in a poem in 1835.<ref name="Anzulovic">{{cite book | last=Anzulovic | first=Branimir | page=195 | title=Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide | publisher=Pluto Press Australia | location=Australia | year=2000 | language= | isbn=1-86403-100-X}}</ref> In 1848 he came from Serbia to [[Dalmatia]] to study the state of national sentiment there. He returned to Belgrade in 1850 to teach at the [[Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia|Lyceum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BAN, Matija - Hrvatski biografski leksikon |url=https://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak/ban-matija |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=hbl.lzmk.hr}}</ref>
His best known literary works include 14 dramas and tragedies related to Slavic history (''Miljenko i Dobrila,'' 1850; ''Mejrima ili Bošnjaci,'' 1851; ''Car Lazar,'' 1858; ''Marta Posadnica,'' 1871; 1880; ''Jan Hus,'' 1884, etc).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ban, Matija - Hrvatska enciklopedija |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/ban-matija |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.enciklopedija.hr}}</ref>
Matija Ban was a member of the Society of Serbian Letters (1858), Serbian Learned Society (1864), and Serbian Royal Academy (1892).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ban Matija |url=https://www.sanu.ac.rs/en/member/ban-matija/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=www.sanu.ac.rs}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Ignjat Job]]
* [[Ivan Stojanović]]
* [[Milan Rešetar]]
* [[Vicko Adamović]]
* [[Konstantin Branković]]
==References==
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<ref name=hrenc>[https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=5630 Ban, Matija] (in Croatian). ''Hrvatska enciklopedija''. Accessed March 2022.</ref>
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==Further reading==
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* [[Jovan Skerlić]], ''Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti''/ A History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921), pages 199-201.
* {{cite journal | url = http://www.matica.hr/Kolo/kolo2006_1.nsf/AllWebDocs/sundov | journal = [[Kolo (magazine)|Kolo]] | publisher = [[Matica hrvatska]] | title = Posljednji odjek - Katja Bakija: Knjiga o "Dubrovniku" 1849–1852. | author = Stjepan Ćosić | language = hr | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081229115751/http://www.matica.hr/Kolo/kolo2006_1.nsf/AllWebDocs/sundov | archive-date = 29 December 2008 | df = dmy-all }}
*[http://www.ppnjegos.org/biografija.htm Njegos.org Short Biography] {{in lang|sr}}
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