Pavao Štoos

Pavao Štoos (10 December 1806 – 30 March 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 ilirska'', 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'').

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. Provided by Wikipedia