Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

Serbian poet, physician

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1833

Place of Birth: Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Date of Death: 03-Jun-1904

Profession: writer, physician, poet, translator, journalist, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jovan "Jova" Jovanovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? "????" ?????????, pronounced [j??v?an j?v?a?n?v?it?? zmâj]; 24 November 1833 – 1 June 1904), also known as ????? ????????? ???? (Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj) or ???? (Zmaj), was a Serbian poet. A physician by profession, he wrote in many of the genres of poetry, including love, lyric, patriotic, political, youth's, but he remains best known for his children's poetry.
His nursery rhymes have entered the Serbian national consciousness and people sing them to their children without necessarily knowing who wrote them.
He also translated the works of some of the great poets, Russia's Lermontov and Pushkin; Germany's Goethe and Heine; and the United States' Longfellow. His nickname Zmaj (????, meaning "dragon") derives from May Assembly (3 May 1848), in Serbian Cyrillic: 3.???.
The dot (indicating an ordinal number in Serbian) was mistakenly left out, thus the writing read "3???".