Petar II Petrović Njegoš

Born in Njeguši[?], educated in monastery of Cetinje[?], he became ruler of Montenegro with 17 years. Seeing the necessity for Montenegro to become a modern state, he reconciled quarelling Montenegrin tribes[?], established Senate, government and courts, started collecting taxes, strengthened the borders of Montenegro, built roads, first school and printing works. And while doing that, he wrote his poems; Mountain wreath is most famous of them. He died in Cetinje; he is burried in a small chapel on top of mountain Lovćen[?] where, later, his mausoleum is built.

Major works

• Hermit of Cetinje (1834)
• Light of microcosm (1845)
• Mountain wreath (English translation (http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevnost/umetnicka/njegos/mountain_wreath.html)) (1847)
• Fake tzar Šćepan small (1851)

Quotes

 Blessed is he whose name lives forever.
 A good reason had he to be alive!

 When my wife asks where I have been today,
 I will tell her that I've been sowing salt.
 And woe to her if she does not believe!

 What is man? (And it's his fate to be man!)
 A small creature deceived oft by the earth,
 yet he sees that the earth is not for him.
 Is not the real more puzzling than the dream?

External links

• njegos.org (http://www.njegos.org)