GRGUR ĆEVAPOVIĆ

Grgur Čevapović (in the sources and Grgur Ćevapović) (Bertelovci near Pozega, April 23, 1786. - Budim, April 21, 1830.), Croatian language reformer and writer from Hungary. He wrote plays and poems.

In 1802. graduated from high school in his native city and entered the Franciscan order. He studied philosophy in Baja and on Budapest University, where he received his doctorate. Priest of the 1809. and lecturer in philosophy Brod on the Sava and Našice. Nine years teaching history and canon law to theological universities of Brod and Vukovar, where he was abbot of the monastery. On two occasions he was provincial of the Guardian in Vienna. He taught in the gymnasium of Požega 1829. [1]. First of all, he served as a Franciscan priest who holds the pastoral, Educational liege duty. He worked in the Franciscan Province of St.. John of Capistrano.
Significant are his letters from which to read Josephinism gradual abandonment of the attempt to restore the Franciscan life in Slavonia and Danube. It was open to Kant's philosophy, and discussed the fundamental questions of moral theology.
For the history of Croatian and Croatian revival of political thought is extremely significant in that it is still 1820. (practically, at the time pretpreporodno) explicitly pointed Backa Croats and Hungary as part of the Illyrians, and appears as a proponent of South Slav unity. It is written in his play Joseph, son of Jacob patriarke, which was published in Buda, where in a biblical story, said that the Illyrians are "Dalmatians (where it should be borne in mind that this was one of the names of Croats in Hungary ), Kranjc, Istrijanci, Montenegrins, Servijanci loud, to the Croats, Murodravci, Bosniaks (another name for the Hungarian Croats), Bunjci Podunavci, Kotorčani, Srimci and Slavonians. "