Pavao Å toos

Pavao Å toos
Born	December 10, 1806 Dubravica, Croatia
Died	March 30, 1862 Pokupsko, Croatia
Occupation	Writer, priest, revivalist
Literary movement	Romanticism

Pavao Štoos (December 10, 1806 – March 30, 1862) was a Croatian poet, priest and a revivalist

After graduating theology in Zagreb, he served as a bishop's secretary for a brief period, and from 1842 he was a pastor of the Pokupsko parish.

Štoos is a notable person among Croatian patriots; as the author of a well-known elegy Kip domovine vu početku leta 1831, collaborator of Ljudevit Gaj's Danica, he clearly articulated his concerns over the foreign oppression and the de-nationalisation of the common people (vre i svoj jezik zabit Horvati hote ter drugi narod postati). Štoos pessimistically observes contemporary political and cultural movements, seeing the country as if trapped in the darkness of a dungeon (srce od plača ne mrem zdržati).

Pavao Å toos, monument in his native Dubravica

Besides the literature, he was also engaged in music and has published in 1858 Kitice srkvenih pjesama s napjevima. He is the author of the song "Poziv u kolo ilirsko".

In 1862 he was appointed as a Zagreb canon, but he died before he managed to officially receive the title.

References

• FaliÅ¡evac, Dunja; Nemec, KreÅ¡imir; Novaković, Darko (2000), Leksikon hrvatskih pisaca (in Croatian), Zagreb: Å kolska knjiga d.d, ISBN 953-0-61107-2