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Jun 29, 1877 Stričići, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Died on 27 Aug 1916 (aged 39)
Bosnian Serb writer
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- Petar Kocic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ?????; 29 June 1877 – 27 August 1916) was a Bosnian Serb writer, activist and politician.
- Born in rural northwestern Bosnia in the final days of Ottoman rule, Kocic began writing around the turn of the twentieth century, first poetry and then prose.
- While a university student, he became politically active and began agitating for agrarian reforms within Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been occupied by Austria-Hungary following the Ottomans' withdrawal in 1878.
- Other reforms that Kocic demanded were freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, which were denied under Austria-Hungary. In the 1900s Kocic led several demonstrations in Sarajevo and was imprisoned on three occasions for publishing newspaper tracts critical of Habsburg rule, after which he was released as part of a general amnesty.
- He spent the majority of his imprisonment in solitary confinement, which contributed to his development of depression.
- In 1910 Kocic won a seat in the newly created Bosnian Parliament (Sabor), where he became the leader of a faction of anti-Austrian Serb nationalists.
- He lobbied for increased concessions to Bosnian Serb peasants and farmers, agitating against the Austro-Hungarians as well as the Bosnian Muslim landowning class.
- He left the Sabor in 1913, citing mental exhaustion; in January 1914, Kocic was admitted into a Belgrade mental hospital, where he died two years later. Kocic was one of the most important Bosnian Serb politicians of the Austro-Hungarian era, as well as one of the most important South Slavic playwrights of the twentieth century.
- He was noted for his fiery temperament and sharp wit, which he frequently deployed against the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
- Kocic's works not only influenced an entire generation of Bosnian-Herzegovinian intellectuals, such as the future Nobel laureate Ivo Andric, but also the Serbian and Yugoslav nationalist movements, as well as the Bosnian autonomist and Yugoslav communist movements.
- Numerous streets in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia carry his name, and his likeness has appeared on Bosnian 100 KM banknotes since 1998.
