Summary
Lukšić, Abel, Croatian printer, publisher and bookseller (Karlovac, 1826 – Rijeka, August 18, 1901). He founded a printing and literary institute in Karlovac; started, edited and published the illustrated magazine Glasonoša (1861–64); published Pjesne Med Pucić (1862), Vršidba by Jovan Sundečić (2nd ed. 1862), Kriesnice by Ivan Trnsko (I–II, 1863–65), the almanac Vilinski darovi (1863), the folk calendar Prorok (1863 and 1864), etc. He also ran a bookstore with a large selection of books, mostly from Zagreb printers. From 1864, he continued publishing Glasonoše in Vienna (until the end of 1865) and started Slavische Blätter (1865–66), which was edited by A. Šenoa. In German, he wrote the works Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnien und die Hercegovina, 1878) and Guide to Croatia and Slavonia (Reiseführer durch Kroatien und Slavonien, 1892).
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