Dimitrija Demeter

Dimitrija Demeter (Greek: Δημήτριος Δημητρίου - Dimitrios Dimitriou; sometimes spelled Dimitrije Demeter or Dimitrije Demetar; 21 July 1811 – 24 June 1872) was a Croatian poet, dramatist, short story writer and literary critic. One of the most learned people of his time, he played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation (then under Austro-Hungarian rule) as part of what he and his close friend and colleague Ljudevit Gaj called the Illyrian people by imposing the Croatian language in the local literacy and with the creation of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. His political activism for a Croatian national revival dealt through his participation in many patriotic pamphlets, most notably the Narodne novine and Hrvatski Sokol among many others.