Ignaz Karl Soppron (1821–1894), better known as Ignjat Sopron (Serbian Cyrillic: Игњат Сопрон), was a journalist, publisher, and printer from Zemun (then part of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, today one of the municipalities of Belgrade, Serbia). Born in Novi Sad to an ethnic German family, he learned the art of printing in his hometown, and later in Pest and Vienna. He worked for the Viennese daily newspaper Fremden-Blatt and attended lectures at the University of Vienna. In 1851, he was given a concession to run the printing business in Zemun. He founded a printing house there, which produced books in Serbian, German, Bulgarian, and Greek. In 1852–53, it also issued a newspaper, Srbsko-narodni vestnik (Србско-народни вестник, "Serbian National Herald"). Sopron accepted the offe