Georg Jelačić from Bužim

Georg Jelačić, lithograph by Vinzenz Katzler, 1862

Georg Anton Graf Jelacic (Jellacic) of Bužim ( Croatian Đuro Jelačić Bužimski ) (* 25. May 1805 in Petrovaradin (Petrovaradin) ; † 20th July 1901 in Novi Dvori , Croatia ), was a nobleman of Croatian descent, kk Field Marshal Lieutenant , Major General and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 69.

biography

Georg Jelačić joined the Prohaska 7th Infantry Regiment as a cadet , and after four years became an officer in the Grand Duke of Tuscany Dragoons . He then served in several border regiments, Jelačić was also among those officers who took part in the war that broke out between the gate and the viceroy of Egypt in 1839 . As a colonel, he fought in the campaign in 1848 and 1849 in the First Banal Border Regiment No. 10 in Italy . He took part in the siege of Peschiera del Garda , the storming of Brescia and the siege of Venice . Then he advanced to major general on July 22, 1849 and on January 14, 1856 to field marshal lieutenant and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 69. In the Italian campaign of 1859 he was a division general in the 2nd Army Corps and fought at Palestro and Solferino .

The Army Ordinance Gazette No. 34 of 1861, at its head the imperial handbillet , surprisingly published the following bulletin: “The Lieutenant Field Marshal Georg Graf Jelačić is to be accepted into the normal pension status (on September 1, 1861). Laxenburg on August 16, 1861. Franz Joseph “The political papers of that time documented the imperial order with the following marginal gloss:“ Baron Ruslan announced in the session of the Croatian parliament on August 24, 1861 that the vice-captain FML. Jellačić was occasionally retired from the oath because of his statement and interned in Klagenfurt , as a result of which he had acknowledged ”.

Field Marshal Lieutenant Jelačić is said to have stated, among other things, that he would rather see his nation under the Turkish yoke than under the exclusive influence of whatever nation was formed; while the Turk is content with the body of his slaves, but the civilized nation also demands his soul - his nationality.

family

On October 19, 1845, the count married the star cross-order lady Hermine (* May 5, 1823 in Klagenfurt † October 26, 1906 in Agram (Zagreb)), daughter of Count Karl Theodor Christalnigg von und zu Gillitzstein, Freiherr auf Herrnburg, from the Carinthian noble family of Count Christalnigg von und zu Gillitzstein , who owned several castles in the Duchy of Carinthia, including Meiselberg Castle near Maria Saal . Countess Hermine was the sister of Princess Friederike Fugger von Babenhausen. There were five children from this marriage: Georg (* May 10, 1847), Helene (* August 27, 1852), Marcus (* February 7, 1854), Maria Vera (Wera) (* December 8, 1856) and Anna (* June 18, 1859).

He was the former head of the Jelačić family and the second brother of the Banus Josip Jelačić of Bužim .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Jellačić de Bužim, Georg Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 139 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Year 6, 1901, Reimer, Berlin 1904

Individual evidence

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