Ivan Franjo Jukić

Writer, educator and Franciscan friar who founded the first literary magazine “Bosanski prijatelj - Bosnian friend” in 1850. Jukić was educated in Zagreb and Veszprém and is widely recognised as the first to publicly advocate for equal rights of all ethnic and religious groups in Bosnia & Herzegovina, authoring the first ‘informal’ constitution of Bosnia & Herzegovina. In 1851 he also published the first book on the geography and history of Bosnia & Herzegovina. He founded numerous schools in the country and advocated for widespread education.