Muhamed Hadžijamaković | |
Birth Date: | 1814 or 1815 |
Birth Place: | Sarajevo, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | 25 August 1878 (aged 63–64) |
Death Place: | Sarajevo, Bosnia Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Cause: | Executed by Austro-Hungarian troops |
Spouse: | Twice married |
Children: | 6 |
Muhamed Hadžijamaković (1814 or 1815 – 25 August 1878) was one of the Bosnian Muslim leaders striving for the Bosnia Vilayet autonomy within the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s and 1870s.
Hadžijamaković was born in Sarajevo into a family of Bosniak Janissary descendants. His father's name was Mehmed, but his mother's name is not known. Hadžijamaković had a brother named Sejf-aga and two sisters named Nesiba and Hasiba.
He married twice; the first marriage produced two daughters, Umihana and Fatima. The second marriage produced three sons and a daughter.
He ardently opposed the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet in 1878 and eventually became one of the main organizers of the armed resistance in Sarajevo to the invading Austro-Hungarian Army. He requested the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II for support which never arrived. He was eventually captured and executed by the Austro-Hungarians.[1]
Hadžijamaković wrote a biography of poet Abdulvehab Ilhamija entitled Ilhamija: Život i djelo (Ilhamija: Life and Work).[2]