Ćiro Truhelka

Ćiro Truhelka (2 February 1865 in Osijek – 18 September 1942 in Zagreb) was a Croatian archaeologist.

Truhelka finished grade school and gymnasium in Osijek and went to university in Zagreb. He was the first custodian of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He coined the name bosančica for Bosnian Cyrillic.^[1] In March 1939 Truhelka was the president of Društvo bosansko-hercegovačkih Hrvata u Zagrebu (Society of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian Croats in Zagreb).^[2]

Truhelka made many important findings about pre-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Prozor-Rama he verified the legend of Grabovac's Virgin (Diva Grabovčeva) when he recovered the remains of a young woman from the 16th or 17th century.^[3] In 1888, Truhelka excavated the alleged remains of king Stjepan Tomašević, which are now housed in the Franciscan monastery in Jajce.^[4]

Works

• Starobosanski pismeni spomenici, 1894
• Starobosanski natpisi, 1895
• Slavonski banovci, 1897
• Osvrt na sredovječne kulturne spomenike Bosne, (1900.)
• Djevojački grob, (1901.)
• Državno i sudbeno ustrojstvo Bosne u doba prije Turaka, 1901
• Kraljevski grad Jajce, 1904
• Naši gradovi, 1904
• Arnautske priče, 1905
• Crtice iz srednjeg vijeka, 1908
• Dubrovačke vijesti o godini 1463., 1910
• Tursko-slavjenski spomenici dubrovačke arhive, 1911
• Gazi Husrefbeg, 1912)
• Kulturne prilike Bosne i Hercegovine u doba prehistoričko, 1914
• Historička podloga agrarnog pitanja u Bosni, 1915
• Das Testament des Gost Radin, 1916
• Stari turski agrarni zakonik za Bosnu, 1917
• Konavoski rat 1430.-1433., 1917
• Nekoliko misli o rješenju bosanskog agrarnog pitanja, 1918
• Sojenica kao ishodište pontifikata, 1930
• Starokršćanska arheologija, 1931
• O porijeklu bosanskih muslimana, 1934
• Studije o podrijetlu. Etnološka razmatranja iz Bosne i Hercegovine, 1941
• Uspomene jednog pionira, Croatian Publishing and Bibliographic Institute, 1942

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