vinovo.magnify.net Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, a little village near Gospić in Lika. Tesla was born on July 10th 1856. In the same year was born George Bernard Shaw, the Irish and English playwright, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, the first man who studied Krapina’s early man as well as Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Tesla’s father was Milutin. He was a priest by profession. Their family name was not always Tesla. It had been Draganić, surname Tesla was given to them afterwards. Namely, allegedly one of Nikola’s ancestors had extremely big front teeth that resembled carpenter tools (“Tesarski” alat) so he got the nickname “Tesla” after it. Most of Nikola’s ancestors lived evidently longer that it was usual for a man’s life so there was a tale that one of them died in the age of 140! Brother Dane’s death Milutin was born in nearby RaduÄ in 1819 and he was supposed to be a soldier, as it was common in the Military Border (Vojna Krajina). His brother Josif was a soldier indeed, but Milutin enrolled seminary in PlaÅ¡ki and became a priest. Having finished seminary, he married Äuka Mandić, a girl from GraÄac. In the beginning, Milutin worked in Senj parish (the church there is destroyed now), and from 1857 he was a priest in Smiljan (he had been only an administrator before). While working in Senj he had allegedly used to preach about “usefulness of work” so the Archbishop ordained him a red belt and Milutin became a parish priest. Nikola and Mandica were …
