Pavao Štoos was a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 poet, priest and a revivalist

After graduating theology in Zagreb, he served as a bishop's secretary for a brief period, and from 1842 he as a pastor

Pastor

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 of the Pokupsko

Pokupsko

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 parish.

Štoos is a notable person among Croatian patriots; as the author of a well-known elegy Kip domovine vu početku leta 1831, collaborator of Ljudevit Gaj

Ljudevit Gaj

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's Danica, he clearly articulated his concerns over the foreign oppression and the de-nationalisation of the common people (vre i svoj jezik zabit Horvati hote ter drugi narod postati). Štoos pessimistically observes contemporary political and cultural movements, seeing the country as if trapped in the darkness of a dungeon (srce od plača ne mrem zdržati).
Besides the literature, he was also engaged in music and has published in 1858 Kitice srkvenih pjesama s napjevima. He is the author of the song Poziv u kolo ilirsko.

In 1862 he was appointed as a Zagreb canon

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, but he died before he managed to officially receive the title.