Career
He Slavicized his name to Stanko Vraz in 1836. Born in the village of Cerovec in Lower Styria, Austrian Empire (today in Slovenia), Vraz was one of the most important figures of the Illyrian Movement in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. He was the first Croatian to earn his living as a professional writer
He wrote poems and travelogues and collected folk poems.
He also translated foreign literature into Croatian. She served as his muse, and he wrote and dedicated many poems and works to her.
Stanko Vraz died in Zagreb in 1851.
