Ignaz Stojanich


Ignaz Stojanich von Selin also written Ignaz Stoianich was an Austrian general-major.
He participated in the quelling of a Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan in Transylvania in 1784.
In 1798 Stojanich commanded the Petrovaradin Krajina Infantry Regiment no. 9 of the Slavonian Generalat of the Military Frontier, headquartered in Mitrovica.
After receiving a high rank in the military it was customary for the recipient Ignaz Stojanich to have his social status elevated. On 17 July 1801, he became a baron with the predicate "von Selin".
He retired from the military in 1807, the year he died on 23 December in Agram, now Zagreb.