Luko Zore

Luko Zore (born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) January 15 1846 (Ragusavecchia/Cavtat) and died in november 26 1906, Cetinje) was a Croatian philologist and Slavist, and was one of the leading opposition fighting against the foreign forces of Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy in Dubrovnik. He was by birth a Catholic.

In that time there were two major intellectual streams in Dubrovnik as well as in the whole Croatia: First one was for the union of all the slavic people believing that all the slavic people were of one nation (Illyrian movement), which was prevailing in Dubrovnik, and the second one was for Croatian state of Croatian people which was much weaker since they were not able to resist the forces of bribed political power of that time only by themselves. Luko Zore therefore entered and was an active part of all the slavic associations available in that time in Dubrovnik, trying to fight the foreign political power and to develop the idea of national identity of the language and slavic origins. Zore was a professor in the High School in Zadar after 1878 he founding with Niko Pucic the review Slovinac (Slav), dedicated mainly to literature and the arts. Luko Zore was the editor. It was discontinued in 1884.