Vid Došen

Vid Došen (Tribanj, around 1719 - Dubovik near Brod na Savi, 1778) was a Croatian priest, poet and publicist of Sebian origin. As a poet he wrote in both Serbian and Croatian vernacular and in Latin. His most significant work is Aždaja Sedmoglava https://www.google.ca/books/edition/A%C5%BEdaja_sedmoglava_bojnim_kopljem_udaren/OhleAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Vid+Dosen%22+-wikipedia&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover ("The Seven-headed Dragon"), published in 1765 in Zagreb with a second edition in 1774. His instructive essay on vices was entitled Sedmoglava azdaja (Sevev-headed dragon). His work is embraced by both Croatian and Serbian literature. Vid Došen follows Matija Antun Reljković with his literary activity and "resolutely defended Reljković who was against superstition and backward customs."https://www.google.ca/books/edition/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%98%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8_%D0%BA%D1%9A%D0%B8%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B2/BqexDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4+%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD&pg=PA290&printsec=frontcoverVid Došen, Matija Antun Reljković, and Antun Kanižlić wrote in the vernacular of the common folk Štokavian dialect of the Croatians, Slavonic-Serbian, and the accustomed Latin of the time. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Delo/gsoXAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4+%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD&pg=PA127&printsec=frontcover
==Biography==
Originally from Lika, http://elibrary.matf.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/handle/123456789/1499/basic.pdf?sequence=1the family Došen or Došenović are linked, though some are Eastern Orthodox and others are Roman Catholic. Vid Došen was a Catholic, who came from the Croatian Došen family, from the Bunjevci family in Lika, a family that traditionally provided high-ranking military officers for the Slavonian Military Frontier. The family originates from Herzegovina. In the "Seven-headed Dragon," Došen calls himself "Dalmatian from the Velebit Sea". name="Franičević 1993"He was ordained a priest in 1744. He first acquired knowledge of glaoljicd so that he could perform priestly duty in the parishes of the diocese of Nin. He soon went to Križevci to study humanities in addition to his priestly work. Then in Zagreb in the seminary of St. Joseph was chaplain at the Baron Gothal Foundation, studying philosophy at the Jesuit Academy until 1749, then canon law for a year. name="Tatarin 2018" Years 1750–52. he studied speculative theology in Graz. After graduating in January 1754, at his own request, he was dismissed from the Diocese of Nin and admitted to the Diocese of Zagreb. From November of that year to June 1756 he was chaplain in Požega, and in July he was appointed interim administrator of the parish in Dubovik. It was not until 1768 that he was appointed true pastor. He had already met the enlightenment work of the Jesuit J. Milunović in Požega, but his stay in Dubovik and close contact with the rural world encouraged him to dedicate himself to enlightenment. This is where his most important religious-didactic works were written. God. In 1769 he became a professor of morals and director of the Academy in Požega, without leaving the parish. After the abolition of the Academy, and the study of philosophy and morals in 1776, Došen returned to his parish in Dubovik in poor health. name="Franičević 1993"He soon died and was buried in the chapel of St. Stjepan in the neighboring village of Glogovica. In 1767, he turned against Relković's critique of the Slavonian village. name="Tatarin 2018"
He was educated in Križevci, Zagreb and Graz. He completed his studies in theology. He worked as a priest in the diocese of Senj and in the diocese of Zagreb. There he was the house chaplain to the Pejačević family of counts.
Later, Bishop Galjuf appointed him spiritual assistant in eastern Croatia, in Požega. He then went to Dubovik where he was pastor. There he joined the discussions about Reljković's work "Satyr" (Satire) or the "Wild Man" from 1762.
In 1768, he anonymously published the pamphlet poem "Echo of the Mountain" in Zagreb. In that pamphlet he attacked the writer who wrote the song Tamburaš slavonski. He was a writer who sharply criticized the Satire of Matija Antun Reljković. Although it was a pamphlet, this work is important in the study of all the controversies raised by Relković's "Satire". Došen composed his poem in "a short time of one week", ie the same year, which can be seen from the capital letters in the title Echo, which have a numerical value. name="Tatarin 2018" "Echo" was published anonymously, but even then many considered Došen the author (A. B. Krčelić, A. T. Blagojević, J. Jakošić). His poem is also valuable because it reveals how contemporaries accepted or rejected Relković's Satire, because there are no other printed arguments. It remains controversial who the "Tamburitza" is. Some thought of the Franciscan Đuro Rapić, the author of the work Satyr or the Wild Man in the Christian Doctrine of Beauty, Instruct, Teach and Baptize (1766), whom Relković himself considered an opponent of Satire (in The Fable of the Miller and His Son). name="Tatarin 2018"
In the same year, in Zagreb, he published the song Aždaja sedmoglava, struck and insulted with a battle spear. Dividing the poem into 7 "rebukes" (mortal sins), Došen deals with an object from Christian morality, applying it to everyday life. He falls for the flaws of Slavonian life without sparing any social class. Unlike the educators Relković and Andrija Kačić Miošić. name="Franičević 1993"
==Origin==
The Došeni or Došenovići clan came from Bunjevci, who settled Podgorje, Smiljan, Lovinac, Bilaj and Gospić during the great Bunjevac migrations. Jovan Erdeljanović, in his book "On the Origin of the Bunjevci", writes about the Dosheni that there are both Catholics and Orthodox in Podgorje and Lika, that the Orthodox accepted Catholicism around 1683. Lopasić, on the other hand, claims that Došeni originated from northern Dalmatia and cites the Orthodox Došen and Došenović families in western Bosnia. Another ethnographer Vaso Banović in the book Gačka dolina s okolnim poljima, published by the Main Association of Serbian Agricultural Cooperatives (Zagreb 1932), determined that the Tribanj families of Došen, Uzelac, Pejnović, Babić, Anić, Biondić and Vukelić are of Orthodox and Serbian origin. It is interesting that the inhabitants of Tribnja spoke the Ikavian pronunciation of the Serbian language.
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