Grgo Martić

• Honorific Prefix — Fra • Name — Grgo Martić • Religion — Roman Catholic • Order — Franciscan • Birth Name — Ljubomir Martić • Born — 24 January 1822 • Birthplace — Rastovača, Eyalet of Bosnia, Ottoman Empire (now Rastovača, Bosnia and Herzegovina) • Died — 30 August 1905 • Place of death — Kreševo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary (now Kreševo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) • Ordination — 1845

He was born as Ljubomir Martić in the village of Rastovača, near Posušje, in the Eyalet of Bosnia, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied philosophy in Zagreb before completing his theology degree in Stolni Biograd (now Székesfehérvár, Hungary). He was ordained in 1845 in Travnik. He served for three years in Kreševo and Osova. From 1851 to 1878, he served as a parish priest in Sarajevo before settling at the Franciscan monastery St. Catharine in Kreševo. As a friar of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, Martić served the majority of his life, and carried out most of his work while at the monastery. In his youth, he was a supporter of Illyrian movement as a nationalist and romanticist, before switching to a more moderate view. Martić worked as a writer and translator, translating works of Homer, Tolstoy, and Goethe into the peoples vernacular language (narodni jezik). At the time of the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was politically active on behalf of the Catholics of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Slavodobitnica svijetlomu gospodaru Omer-paši (epic poem, 1852) • Narodne pjesme bosanske i hercegovačke (with Ivan Frano Jukić), I (1858) • Osvetnici, I-III (ep, 1861/65.), IV (1878.), V (1881.), VI (1881.), VII (1883) • Početni zemljopis za katoličke učionice u Bosni (epic poem, 1884) • Narodne pjesme o boju na Kosovu godine 1389. (1886) • Obrana Biograda godine 1456. (ep, 1887) • Pjesnička djela fra Grge Martića, 1-7 (1888) • Pjesnička djela fra Grge Martića, I (1893) • Zapamćenja/1829–1878, po kazivanju autorovu zabilježio janko Koharić (1906.) • Izabrani spisi (1956)