Gavrilo Princip
Bosnian assassin (1894-1918) · Activists · Died at 23
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Something wrong?A nineteen-year-old student who fired two shots into a convertible in Sarajevo and set off the sequence that became World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand pulled empires into a war that killed millions - the trigger pulled by someone too small to be accepted into the Serbian army.
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Princip family home in Obljaj
Gavrilo Princip's parents, Marija and Petar Princip c. 1927
(left to right) Trifko Grabež, Milan Ciganović, and Gavrilo Princip in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, c. May 1914.
Princip fatally shooting the royal couple as illustrated by Achille Beltrame in La Domenica del Corriere
Princip, centre of first row, during the trial![An FN Model 1910 pistol of the type used by Princip in the assassination.[48]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Browning_1910_%286971783833%29.jpg/1280px-Browning_1910_%286971783833%29.jpg)
An FN Model 1910 pistol of the type used by Princip in the assassination.[48]In their own words 2
, There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive.
Our shades shall tread Vienna's streets, roaming the courtyard, striking fear in noble hearts.
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Born in 1894 to a poor Serb family in western Bosnia, Princip was sent to Sarajevo at thirteen to study, where he joined Young Bosnia, a secret society seeking liberation from Austrian rule. He walked to Belgrade after being expelled for anti-Austrian activism, then tried to volunteer in the First Balkan War but was rejected as too weak. When Austria imposed martial law in Bosnia in 1913, Princip organized two others into a plot against the visiting heir to the Habsburg throne. The Black Hand, a Serbian secret society, supplied weapons and training. On 28 June 1914, he mortally wounded Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie with a pistol. Sentenced to twenty years because of his age, he died of tuberculosis in Terezín Fortress in 1918, his right arm already amputated, four years before his term ended.
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