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Martin Juraj Kovačić: Dissertatio de Religione
Kovačić, Martin Juraj, Croatian legal historian (Šenkvice, Slovakia, 9. XI. 1743 – Budapest, 1. XII. 1821). Doctor of philosophy. He collected historical material in Hungary, Transylvania and Croatia for the National Museum in Pest. From 1812 he lived in Zagreb, where he conducted research in the central state archive, as well as in the still unorganized archives of the Zagreb County, the city and the Kaptol. Year In 1815, at the request of Bishop M. Vrhovac, together with his son Josip Nikola, he arranged the files in the Zagreb bishop's archive. He collected a large collection of historical material, the greater part of which (more than 300 volumes) is stored in the Széchény National Library in Budapest, and a smaller part of his books and manuscripts is in the Metropolitan Library in Zagreb. Year In 1790, he published the work Traces of the Council that the Hungarians maintained from the establishment of their kingdom in Pannonia to the present day (Vestigia comitiorum apud Hungaros ab exordio regni eorum in Pannonia, usque ad hodiernum diem celebratorum). In the work Minor Writers of Hungarian History (Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum minores, 1798) he published a list of documents kept in the archives of the Šibenik Vrančić family under the title Chronological list of documents, partly authentic, partly autographs, partly apographs from the Vrančić-Draganić archive (Elenchus chronologicus actorum partim originalium authenticorum, partim autographorum, partim apographorum ex archivio Verantiano Draganiciano), and Antun Vrančić's geographical and ethnographic writing On the location of Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia (De situ Transylvaniae, Moldaviae et Transalpinae).
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