Antonije Tona Hadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Антоније Хаџић; Subotica, 20 November 1831 - Novi Sad, 17 January 1916) was the secretary and president of the Matica Srpska, playwright, and director of the Serbian National Theater and editor-in-chief of the Letopis (Chronicle) of the Matica Srpska.
[4] As the editor of the Letopis (Chronicle) of Matica Srpska (1859-1869 and 1876-1895), he was extremely agile, and his editorial policy reflected the maturing of the political consciousness of the young towards the democratic and freedom-loving ideals of European citizenship.
[5] While he was with Matica in Pest, together with Laza Kostić, he organized plays for the benefit of the Serbian National Theater.
Hadzic wrote literary and theater reviews, portraits of actors, short stories, historical articles, and minor discussions, translated plays from the Hungarian language, adapted domestic plays (Grabancijas by Ilija Okrugić Sremac and Stanoje Glavaš by Djura Jakšić) for the theater, staged the Mountain Wreath by Njegoš with a prologue by Laza Kostić (1902).
He wrote a one-act comedy Love is not a joke (1871) and with Jovan Djordjević an allegory in two parts with music by Davorin Jenko's Markov Saber (1873).