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Antun Fabris
Antun Fabris
Born	(1864-04-17)17 April 1864 Dubrovnik
Died	14 October 1904(1904-10-14) (aged 40) Dubrovnik, Austria-Hungary
Literary movement	Serb-Catholics

Antun Fabris (Serbian Cyrillic: Антун Фабрис; April 17, 1864 – October 14, 1904), was a journalist, essayist, publisher and politician from Dubrovnik who was one of the leaders of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.

Biography

The ancestors of Antun Fabris came to the mainland from the island of Korčula. After finishing basic studies in Dubrovnik he went on to Vienna, where he graduated in Slavic studies from the university there in 1889. He was a teacher first in Split and then Zadar. In 1895 he became the owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of the prominent Dubrovnik newspaper. In 1902 he formed his own paper in Dubrovnik, the Srđ ("Срђ"), with his wife, and professor Luko Zore, the editor-in-chief, and the support of other Catholic Serbs. It was a cultural and literary journal for Serb intellectuals in Dalmatia.

As a respected Serb journalist, he was a Deputy President of the Pan-Serb Journalist Congress in Belgrade on 14 and 15 October 1902.

For publishing in the Srđ the song of Uroš Trojanović "Boccan night" (Bokeška noć) dedicated to the youth of Boka kotorska Antun was under ideological accusations arrested on 5 November 1902 and kept in prison until 23 December 1902. Three others were also arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, Uroš Trojanović, the author of the poem, Luko Zore, and Antun Pasarić, Fabris's co-editors. Fabris's term, however short in prison, greatly jeopardized his poor health, causing his premature death in 1904.

Fabris was also the manager of Dubrovnik's "Matica srpska". He contributed to the foundation of the Srpska Zora (Serb Dawn), a Dalmatian Serb cultural society in 1901.

Legacy

Antun Fabris is noted for his role in maintaining a cultural identity during periods of political changes and restrictions in Dalmatia, but in Bosnia Herzegovina as well.

In 1940 a book entitled Izabrani članci Antuna Fabrisa (Selected articles by Antun Fabris) was published by Henrik Barić.

Further reading

• Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti / History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921), pages 360–366.
• Serbian Studies, Volumes 9–10, North American Society for Serbian Studies, 1995, p. 33.
• Arsić, Irena P. (2015). "Antun Fabris, Nikša Gradi, Luko Zore i ostali pisci novije dubrovačke književnosti – gradacija srpske kulturnoistorijske zaboravnosti". In Dimitrijević, Bojana (ed.). Jezik i književnost u kontaktu i diskontaktu : tematski zbornik radova. Naučni skupovi. Vol. 1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš. pp. 149–162. ISBN 978-86-7379-390-0.
• Arsić, Irena P. (2017). "The culture of Catholic Serbs from Dubrovnik in contemporary Croatian historiography". Philologia Mediana (9). University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy. ISSN 1821-3332.