Eugen Kvaternik was a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n politician and revolutionary. Kvaternik and Ante Starčević

Ante Starcevic

Ante Starčević , was a Croatian politician and writer whose activities and works laid the foundations for the modern Croatian state.His works are base for Croatian nationalism, he is often referred to as Father of the Fatherland by Croats.-Life:...

 formed the original Croatian Party of Rights together.

He was born in Zagreb

Zagreb

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. He was educated in Senj

Senj

Senj , German Zengg, Hungarian Zeng and Italian Segna) is the oldest town on the upper Adriatic, and it was founded in the time before the Romans some 3000 years ago on the hill Kuk. It was the center of the Illyrian tribe Iapydes. The current settlement is situated at the foot of the slopes Mala...

 and in Pest

Pest (city)

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. After the abolition of feudalism in 1848 by ban Josip Jelačić

Josip Jelacic

Count Josip Jelačić of Bužim was the Ban of Croatia between 23 March 1848 and 19 May 1859...

, greater freedom from the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

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 was granted. This encouraged proponents of Croatian independence such as Kvaternik. In 1858 he sought help in Russia

Russia

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. When this turned out unsuccessful, he distanced himself from the regions and Slavic nations in general to seek help from France.

He returned to Croatia in 1860 and was elected to Parliament the following year under the new banner of the Party of Rights. In 1862 he was arrested for his political activities. He was jailed and left the country until 1865. He returned only be to be forced to leave the country again. However, after the 1867 crowning of Franz Joseph

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...

 as king

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 of newly reformed Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

 he was allowed to return.

In 1871, he abandoned his party's aim of only using political resistance and launched the Rakovica Revolt

Rakovica Revolt

The Rakovica Revolt was a revolt against Austria-Hungary aiming to establish an independent Croatian state. The revolt was named after Rakovica, where it initially took place in October 1871. The revolt ended in defeat for Croatian rebels.-Preparations:...

. This rebellion ended up being unsuccessful, and Kvaternik himself was killed in it.

A square in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, the Eugen Kvaternik Square

Eugen Kvaternik Square

Eugen Kvaternik Square is a square located on the border between Maksimir, Gornji Grad - Medveščak and Donji Grad city districts of Zagreb, Croatia. It marks the intersection of Vlaška Street, Dragutin Domjanić Street, Maksimirska Street, Vjekoslav Heinzel Avenue and Pavao Šubić Avenue...

is named after him.

"I hate neither Hungary nor Austria and all that I do I do out of immense love of Croatia." - Eugen Kvaternik