Piller Mathia: Iter per Poseganae Sclavoniae provinciam mensibus Junio et Julio anno MDCCLXXXII / susceptum a Mathia Piller, historiae naturalis et Lodovico Mitterpacher, oeconomiae rusticae in regia univer

Mathia Piller: Iter per Poseganae Sclavoniae provinciam mensibus Junio ​​et Julio anno MDCCLXXXII / susceptum a Mathia Piller, historiae naturalis et Lodovico Mitterpacher, oeconomiae rusticae in regia universitate Budensi professoribus Presbyteris.

First edition. Travelogue of the Požega County from the trip that the Hungarian naturalists Matija Piller and Ljudevit Mitterpacher undertook in June and July 1782. One of the first and most important natural history books about Slavonia. It primarily provides information on Slavonian flora and fauna of the 18th century, but also information on settlements, people, customs, diseases and treatment of the population in Slavonia. The Royal University of Buda sends the authors on a trip by order of the emperor to discover the cause of the natural occurrence of unusual sudden fires, seemingly unprovoked, that broke out in the village of Eminovci in Požega County from 1779 to 1782. They travel to Slavonia only a few years after Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube's trip to Slavonia. They set off on June 17, 1782, and the trip lasted a total of two months - until August 12 of the same year. The route takes them from Buda via Balaton, Pécs, Osijek, Čepin, Tenja, Našice, Požega, Cernik, Velika, Pakrac, Kutina and Daruvar to Lipik and - with minor deviations - the same way back to Buda. Significant natural and ethnographic sights and peculiarities of Požega County are described, and it is certainly worth noting the descriptions of the cities that the authors visited with the help of Count Antun Janković Daruvarski, to whom the travelogue is dedicated, for example Požega, Pakrac, Daruvar, and estates, for example Adamović's estate in Čepin. Illustrated – 16 folding plates with copper engravings of butterflies, insects, birds and plants. The travelogue was published in Croatian in 1995 in a translation by Stjepan Sršan (a comparison of the Latin text and the Croatian translation), published by Matica hrvatska Požega and the Historical Archives in Osijek.

Piller, Mathias / Mitterpacher, Ludovikus

Mathias Piller (Graz, 25 April 1733 – Budi, 10 November 1788) – Hungarian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and geologist; Jesuit. The first professor of natural history (historiae naturalis) at the Royal University of Buda, where he managed a large collection of natural objects (zoological, botanical and geological specimens), some of which are kept today in the Hungarian Museum of Natural History and the Geological Museum of Hungary. / Ludwig Mitterpacher (Bilje, 25 August 1734 – Pest, 24 May 1814) – Hungarian agronomist, botanist, zoologist and entomologist; Jesuit. Professor of agriculture (oeconomiae rusticae) at the Royal University of Buda. In 1779, he published the work Elementa rei rusticae, a study on agronomic theory and practice.