Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal

Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal was an 18th-century Croatian historian

Biography

Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal was born in Zagreb on 2 March 1734. He graduated from the Jesuit Gymnasium in Zagreb and became professor in university in Nagyszombat, Hungary. Since 1773 he worked as a professor of rhetoric and Greek language. He became librarian in Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1792 and from 1793 until 1797 he worked in its historiographical department. Mikoczy-Blumenthal died in 1800.

Work

Important works of Mikoczy-Blumenthal include Josephi Mikocsi otiorum Croatiae liber unus in 1806 which was the first historiographical debate in Croatia and Banorum Dalmatiae, Croatiae et Slavoniae ad seculum XIV. perducta series 1792 in which he gave detailed and thorough list of all Croatian bans through five centuries. Others non published works include Lexicon historicum et topographicum and Geographica descriptio Croatiae et Slavoniae.