Baltazar Adam Krčelić

Portrait from the Monumenta Spectantia Historiam Slavorum Meridionalium , Volume 30, Zagreb 1901 ( IA )

Balthasar Adam Kercselich (Croatian: Baltazar Adam Krčelić ; born February 5, 1715 in Šenkovec near Agram ; † March 29, 1778 in Agram) was a Croatian nobleman, historian , theologian and lawyer .

Kercselich was dean in Agram and rector of the Croatian college in Vienna. He wrote in Latin and Croatian-Kaykavian . He wrote his most important works on the history of the Church of Agram up to the 17th century and the political history of the Kingdom of Croatia up to 1564. His "Annuae" are a valuable source for the history of the specified period with many details on the situation in Croatia.

After Vitezović , he is the most prominent figure in Croatian cultural life of his time.

Works

• Zivlenje blaženoga Gazotti Augustina . Agram 1747, 8 °.
• De regnis Dalmatiae Croatiae, Sclavoniae notitiae praeliminares periodus IV. Distinctae quibus ex scopo et fine post veteris Pannoniae praecipue Saviae su Florente decrescenteque Romano Imperio… Zagrabia, Jandera, [approx. 1775], 522 pp.
• De Archidiaconi officio ex jure comuni canonico, municipalibus quoque legibus securior tutiorque deductio ad parochos et ecclesiasticos Archidiaconatus Chasmensis cum Catalogo Archidiaconorum Chasmensium from anno 1660 usque 1770 . Zagrabiae sa, 4 °
• De regnis Dalmatiæ, Croatiæ, Sclavoniæ, notitiæ præliminares, periodis quatuor distinctas… Agram 1770, fol.
• Historia cathedralis ecclesiae Zagrabiensis. Partis I, tomus primus praemissis praeliminaribus continens seriem episcoporum ac anno MXCI ad anum MDCIII . ibid. 1770, fol.
• Korespondencija Krčelićeva i nješto gradje iz njegove velike pravde . Zagreb 1876
• Annuae 1748–1767, proœmio praemisso… published by T [ade] Smičiklas, Jugoslavenska Akad. Znanosti i Umjetnosti, Zagreb 1901 (= Monumenta spectantia historia slavorum meridionalium, 30). Internet Archive

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kercselich, Balthasar Adam . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1864, p. 171 f. ( Digitized version ).