Medo Pucić

Orsat "Medo" Pucić, (Italian: Orsatto Pozza,[1] Serbian Cyrillic: Орсат "Медо" Пуцић; 12 March 1821 – 30 June 1882) was a Ragusan writer and an important member of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.He attended the lyceum in Venice, where in 1841 he became acquainted with Ján Kollár,[1] as well as Adam Mickiewicz, and started to espouse a Serb national sentiment.[10][11][12] Pucić was in active contact with cultural and political circles of Central Croatia, the rest of the Austrian Empire, and different countries of Europe.In March 1848 Pucić threw his lot with Adam Mickiewicz who was in Rome at the time trying to convince Pope Pius IX to endorse a Polish national revolution against the Habsburgs.[citation needed] Medo Pucić was the first person to publicly call himself a Serb, while at the same time believing that the Croatian name for the language he spoke was merely a synonym of the Serbian name, so he was effectively an adherent of slovinstvo, a pan-Slavic view of South Slavic nationalities.