page_title: Veljko Petrović (poet)
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Veljko Petrović (poet) / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Veljko Petrović (poet)
context_page_description: Veljko Petrović was a Serbian poet, writer, art and literary critic, and theoretician.
context_section_description: Veljko Petrović was born in Sombor. His father Gerasim Petrović became an Eastern Orthodox monk, after his wife died. After graduating from high school in his home town, Veljko went to Budapest to study law. From 1906 to 1907 he was co-editor of Croatia, a Croatian-Serbian magazine for social, political and economical studies, founded in Budapest. He also worked on various periodicals in Zagreb and Sarajevo. Because of his nationalistic attitude the Austrian authorities forced him to move to Belgrade, where he participated as a war correspondent in both Balkan Wars and World War I, and wrote poetry. Between the wars he was active in cultural and educational affairs and continued to be so until his death in Belgrade in 1967.
caption: Veljko Petrović on a 1984 Yugoslavian stamp
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