Ljubomil Tito Josip Franjo Babić, better known by his pen nameKsaver Šandor Gjalski, (also cited as Đalski, both pronounced[d͡ʑǎlskiː]; 26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935)[1] was a Croatian novelist and civil servant.[2]
Biography
He was born in Gredice near Zabok in Hrvatsko Zagorje[1] into a minor aristocratic family. His father Tito was a feudal lord and lawyer who served as a representative in Sabor and was a strong supporter of the Croatian national revival. His mother Helena was the daughter of Franjo Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, also a feudal lord and lawyer, from whom Ljubomil took his pen name in 1884. His mother was also a relative of the Croatian poet Antun Mihanović.[1] He finished gymnasium in Varaždin in 1871 and went on to study law in Zagreb between 1871 and 1873 before finishing his studies in Vienna[3] in 1876, before finally passing the national exam in 1878.[1] In 1880, he moved to Virovitica, where he met his future wife, Vilma Gönner, a teacher at the local girls' school.[1] He served the royal government in Zagreb between 1891 and 1898, but, due to disagreements with the Khuen government, returned to Gredice.[1]
Gjalski wrote many novels, but his best known work is Under Old Roofs (Croatian: Pod starim krovovima), a collection of short stories in which he described the economic decline of the Croatian aristocracy.[2] His writings were heavily inspired by Turgenev and Šenoa, as well as realism and romanticism in general.[2]
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^Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. pp. 113–114.
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