Ignjat Sopron

Ignaz Karl Soppron (1821–1894), better known as Ignjat Sopron (Serbian Cyrillic: Игњат Сопрон), was a journalist, publisher, and printer from Zemun (then part of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, today one of the municipalities of Belgrade, Serbia).

Born in Novi Sad to an ethnic German family, he learned the art of printing in his hometown, and later in Pest and Vienna.

[1] He founded a printing house there, which produced books in Serbian, German, Bulgarian, and Greek.

He started and edited the first newspaper to be published in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosanski vjestnik (Босански вјестник, "Bosnian Herald").

[2] He published works of significant Serb writers, such as Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Ljubomir Nenadović, Milovan Vidaković, Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja, and Dositej Obradović.