Ante Kuzmanić

He studied medicine in Vienna in 1827–1831 and received a master's degree in wound treatment and midwifery.

He served as its editor in 1844 and again in 1846–1849, having written a number of editorials and articles in various areas: language, literature, history, morality, agronomy, etc.

[1] He initiated and edited more than fifteen newspapers, modeling them after contemporary European news standards.

[1] He advocated the union of Dalmatia with the rest of Croatia under Croatian name, with Dalmatia being the center of Croatia's cultural life, and the Croatian literary language being standardized on the basis of Ikavian Štokavian dialect.

He refused Ijekavian Štokavian dialect for the literary language, along with spelling reforms proposed by Ljudevit Gaj.