Osman Nuri Hadžić

Publicist, writer, editor, professor, intellectual and clerk. Born in Mostar, he finished his basic schooling in his hometown Mostar and the Sharia Judiciary School in Sarajevo. After that, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb on October 24, 1893 , as the first Muslim from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also studied in Vienna and graduated in 1899. He served in the District Court in Sarajevo. He worked simultaneously in both the Provincial Government and the Sharia Judicial School, as a professor and for a time as school principal. He published numerous important works and together with Safvet-beg Bašagić he founded the magazine Behar.