RADIĆ, ANTE. - Croatian politician, b. at Trebarjevo Desno on 11 June 1868, d. at Zagreb on 10 Feb. 1919. After studying at Zagreb and Vienna, he became a secondary-school teacher.
From 1903 to 1909 he was secretary of the Matica Hrvatska at Zagreb, where, in the struggle between the “old” and the “young,” he was a bitter opponent of the latter. In 1904, together with his brother Stjepan, he founded the Croatian Popular Peasant Party, through which he succeeded in being elected deputy three times. As the driving force behind the journal Dom (“Hearth”) for peasants, he himself wrote most of its articles, advocating the ideal of the domestic hearth and the struggle for the social and political rights of that class, the backbone of the people and guardian of the “autochthonous” heritage, against the alien element of the gospoda (nobility and bourgeoisie), thus profoundly influencing the development of the whole of Croatian national life.
He wrote Život t. j. smrt hrvatskoga preporoda (Zagreb 1899), and, in collaboration with his brother, Što je i što hoće hrvatska pučka seljačka stranka? (ibid. 1908), as well as numerous other essays and articles of a political, cultural-political, philological, and especially ethnographic and folkloristic character; fundamental is Osnova za zabiranje i proučavanje gradje o narodnom životu (2nd ed., Zagreb 1929). The Opera omnia of A. R. appeared in 19 vols. at Zagreb, 1936–38.