Tituš Brezovački

Tituš Brezovački
Born	(1757-01-04)4 January 1757 Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia, Habsburg monarchy
Died	29 October 1805(1805-10-29) (aged 48) Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia, Habsburg Monarchy
Occupation	Poet, playwright, writer, priest
Nationality	Croatian
Literary movement	Classicism, Enlightenment
Notable works	Sveti Aleksij Matijaš Grabancijaš dijak Diogeneš

Tituš Brezovački (January 4, 1757 – October 29, 1805) was a Croatian playwright, satirist and poet.

Brezovački, as the great comedian of the period, wrote all of his dramatic works in

Biography

He was born in

He wrote his first known work, the religious drama Sveti Aleksij for the gymnasium in Varaždin, where it was staged before being printed in Zagreb in 1786.[2] In Križevci he wrote the Latin poem Dalmatiae, Croatiae et Slavoniae trium sororum recursus ad novum Proregem Ioannem Erdődy, ne suis priventur coronis et novo sponso Leopoldo ab Hungaria (The plea of three sisters, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia to the new Ban, count János Erdődy,^[a] that they might not be robbed of their crowns and of their new bridegroom, Leopold, by Hungary),^[3] published in 1790, which represented a strong political shift in his work. This was followed by a similar poem Ode inclytae nobilitati regnorum Dalmatiae, Croatiae, Sclavoniae, printed in 1800, to encourage resistance against Napoleon. During this period, he was a vocal critic of the higher clergy in Zagreb, which he criticized in the poem Jeremijaš nad horvatskoga orsaga zrušenjem narekujuči by the end of the 18th century, ending its censorship in 1801.^[4] He dedicated another poem to the newly constructed foundation hospital located on today's Ban Jelačić Square in 1804.^[2]

Between 1803 and 1805, he wrote his most known works; a