Luko Zore

Luko Zore (; January 15, 1846 – November 26, 1906) was a philologist and Slavist from Dubrovnik. He was one of the leaders of the opposition to Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik and a member of the Serb Catholic movement in Dubrovnik. Later in life he lived in Montenegro.

Biography Luko Zore was born in Cavtat on 15 January 1846, as the son of Antun Zore and Marija Sabadin Pupiza. He finished elementary school in his hometown, completed high school in Dubrovnik before going to Vienna where he studied classical philology and Slavic studies.

After returning to Dubrovnik, he worked as a high school teacher and in 1878 became one of the initiators of the literary journal Slovinac, where he published discussions and poems. He was also its editor before its discontinuation in 1884.

From 1879 to 1880, he worked as a school counselor in the Bosnia and Herzegovina Land's Government, as district school supervisor in Dubrovnik from 1890 to 1895 and as manager of the men's prep school in Arbanasi near Zadar from 1895 to 1897. There, he published his first dramatic piece, Pokora, a bold attempt at challenging the capricious Thalia (Muse), the muse of comedy. The play—a farce—is set in Cavtat, Zore's birthplace, in the nineteenth century.

He published his song Objavljenje under the pseudonym Milivoj Strahinić. He was also a corresponding members of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. That same year, he became director of the grammar school in Kotor, as well as in Cetinje, where he was invited by the Montenegrin prince Nikola to be an educator for his son. Srđ as a review continued for another two years after Zore's death, but in 1908 it was discontinued. Zore's daughter Amalija (1875–1957) married marquis (1863–1940).

Zore died in Cetinje, Montenegro in 1906. He was later re-buried in Dubrovnik's Cemetery Boninovo.

Works Dubrovnikers are Serbs (Dubrovčani su Srbi), 1903, Dubrovnik. "Pokora", a farce written in Dubrovnik in 1905. "Naš jezik tijekom naše književnosti u Dubrovniku" (Our language in the course of our literature in Ragusa), Dubrovnik, 1871.