Bosnian assassin (1894–1918)
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.
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 F…
Sourced, dated quotes from Gavrilo Princip
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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