First Bosniac journalist Mehmed Sacir Kurtcehajic (1844-1872)  Cover Image

Prvi Bošnjački novinar Mehmed Šaćir Kurtćehajić (1844-1872)
First Bosniac journalist Mehmed Sacir Kurtcehajic (1844-1872)

Author(s): Senada Dizdar
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Nacionalna i univerzitetska biblioteka Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Mehmed Sacir Kurtcehajić; printing in Bosnia and Herzegovina; journalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Sarajevski cvjetnik; cultural heritage

Summary/Abstract: Mehmed Sacir Kurtcehajic died one hundred forty years ago as the first Bosniac journalist, first owner of the newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a peculiar personwith special intellectual strength, gifted person with rich imagination whose attitudeswere in regard to whole life and reality and he peered sagaciously not only into the 20th century, also into 21st century. He was a chronicler of Sarajevo, Bosnia Vi-layet and Ottoman Empire with his newspaper Sarajevski cvjetnik and he took a very active and political part as the editor of official Bosna, a member of Vi-layet Assembly (medžlisi umumii vilayet), president of Beledija (town hall, municipal)... besides reminding ourselves of Kurtcehajic and his work, this is a chance to remind of the facts about appearance of modern printing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, first BH journalists and newspapers where there were noted all dramatic moments before one of the most fatal event of the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congress of Berlin in 1879, after that Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied by Austria-Hungary.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 60-67
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bosnian