Milan Ogrizović

Milan Ogrizović (; was a Croatian author, playwright, politician, and academic, serving as a professor and lecturer at the Croatian National Theater. His plays are among the most commonly performed Croatian works.

Biography Milan Ogrizović was born on February 11, 1877, in Senj, the third son of Ilija Ogrizović, a postal worker, and Franjka . Ogrizović was raised in Zavalje by his maternal uncle, a parish priest, who converted him from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism. He completed secondary schooling in Gospić, near his birthplace.

In 1901, Ogrizović completed his principal studies in mathematics and classical philology and, in 1904, received his doctorate in philology, both at the University of Zagreb. which earned him a Demeter's Award and remained in the National Theater's repertoire for decades.

Ogrizović died on August 25, 1923. He is buried at Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb.

Selected works

Breath (, 1901) Year of Love Spring Morning (, 1903) Summer Afternoon (, 1904) Autumn Evening (, 1903) Winter Night (, 1906) Anathema (, 1907; co-authored with ) Hasanaginica: A Drama in Three Acts (, 1909) Banović Strahinja (1912) The Proclamation (, 1917) The Death of Smail Agha Čengić (, 1919) Vučina (1921) In Wiener Neustadt (, 1921)