Career
He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith"s gold. 1871)
Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj. 1876)
Seljačka buna (Peasants" revolt.
1877)
Diogenes (1878)
Šenoa was one of the most popular Croatian novelists and the author of the popular patriotic song "Živila Hrvatska".
He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Slovak-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa.
He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866.
He died in Zagreb at the age of 43.
From 1874 to 1881, he edited the literary journal Vijenac ("Wreath"). He died from disease picked up after the 1880 Zagreb earthquake. In 2008, a total of 182 streets in Croatia were named after August Šenoa, making him the seventh most common person eponym of streets in the country.
