Lajos Thallóczy

Lajos Thallóczy
Lajos Thallóczy
	Thallóczy Lajos
	Lajos Thallóczy's grave at the Kerepesi cemetery in Budapest
Born	8 December 1857; Kassa, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Died	1 December 1916 (aged 58); Herceghalom, Austria-Hungary
Resting place	Kerepesi cemetery in Budapest; 47°29′44.77″N 19°5′26.11″E
Nationality	Hungarian
Awards	Order of Franz Joseph; Order of Leopold;

Lajos Thallóczy (born as Lajos Benedek Strommer,[1] also called as Ludwig von Thallóczy, Ljudevit Taloci; 8 December 1857 – 1 December 1916) was a Hungarian historian, archivist and high public servant. He was a diplomat in late Austria-Hungary who played a very significant role in the Balkans. Because of his mentors Gyula Andrássy and especially Béni Kállay he became an inevitable counselor in all Balkan affairs even to the emperor Franz Joseph himself, to ministers and to the government of the empire.[2] His academic work has produced important results in the study of south Slavic countries and he is regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian researches of the Balkans. Since 1914, he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Bosnia

Coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered in 1889 based on Thallóczy's proposal

Thallóczy became interested in heraldry in a period when scientific circles became interested to select the "right" coat of arms for Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3] His main interests were Bosnian history, especially genealogy, heraldry and biographies of prominent individuals from its medieval period. Supported by Thallóczy's selective use of tendentiously interpreted sources aimed to satisfy the political aspirations of the empire by representing a historically connected fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary the government imposed his proposal for the official coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1889.[4] He introduced ethnically neutral yellow and red combination of colors to confront "misuse of Serbian and Croatian colors".[5]

Thallóczy was transferred to Vienna at the request of Béni Kállay. He was in charge of cultural and educational issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He published numerous Cyrillic and Latin charters, and also works about the duke Hrvoje Vukčić, history of Jajce and numerous other, Bosnia-related, subjects, with the main findings published in the book Studien zur Geschichte Bosniens und Serbiens im Mittelalter, published in Munich and Leipzig in the year 1914.

Albania

Before the First World War Austria-Hungary was significantly interested in Albania because of the political and military plans it had on Balkans and sent its scholars to investigate it.[6] Partly because of this interest Thallóczy was employed within Austria-Hungary administration with title of court counselor to create one work on popular history of Albanians and one textbook.[7] Together with Milan Šufflay and Konstantin Jireček he compiled the Acta et diplomata res Albaniae mediae aetatis illustrantia (English: Documents and Diplomatic Affairs illustrating the Middle Ages in Albania), a collection of archival documents about medieval Albania, primarily from the Venetian and Ragusan archives It was published in a series of volumes between 1913 and 1918.

While some circles in Italy had plans to establish closer connection of Montenegro and Northern Albanian Catholics under their leadership, Thallóczy was one of the promoters of the plans of Austria-Hungary for strengthening the otherness between them and confronting Albanians and Slavs. The aim was to counter advances of Serbia and Montenegro on Adriatic coast. In December 1897 Thallóczy stated that it is necessary to take actions to prevent population of Albania being attracted to Montenegro.[8] According to Fan Noli Thallóczy proclaimed that opinions about Skanderbeg's Serbian descent are legends.[9]

Serbia

During World War I he was civil counselor of the military administration in occupied Kingdom of Serbia.[10] Thallóczy died in a train accident while returning from the funeral of the emperor Franz Joseph I.

Assessment

Thallóczy was the student and successor of Hungarian politician and historian Béni Kállay. These two historians and Istvan Burian comprised the group of Hungarian Balkanists.[11] Lajos Thallóczy was dubbed by his contemporary researchers of the Balkans as a "mobile Balkans institute". Since 1914, he was a member of the Balkans Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is regarded as the academic who started modern Hungarian research of the Balkans in the assessment of his work in the period between WWI and WWII. Thallóczy's work produced important results in the studies of the south Slavic countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia).[12]

Selected works

Prilozi k objašnjenju izvorâ bosanske historije (in Bosnian), Sarajevo, 1893, OCLC 41429445
Die Geschichte der Grafen von Blagay. Von Ludwig von Thalloczy. M. 2 Stammtaf., 14 Siegel und Wappenabbild. (S. A. a. d. 8. Bde. d. "Jahrbuch der k.k. heraldischen Gesellschaft "Adler"). M. d. Portrait d. letzt. Blagay. (in German), Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1898, OCLC 444453714
Thallóczy, Lajos; Áldásy, Antal, eds. (1907). Magyarország és Szerbia közti összeköttetések oklevéltára 1198-1526. Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia.
Acta et diplomata res Albaniae mediae aetatis illustrantia (English: Documents and Diplomatic Affairs illustrating the Middle Ages in Albania), in two volumes, 1913 and 1918, coauthors: Milan Šufflay and Konstantin Jireček
Studien zur Geschichte Bosniens und Serbiens im Mittelalter, 1914
Illyrisch-albanische forschungen (in German), München, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1916, OCLC 35691167 - coauthored with Konstantin Jireček; Milan Šufflay; Theodro Anton Max Ippen; Ernst C Sedlmayr; Josef Ivanič; Imre Karácson; Béla Péch; Karl Thopia

Notes

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In almost all encyclopedias and works on Thallóczy is written that he was born in Buda in 1854 which was his official year of birth until his death. It was later discovered that he was in fact born in 1857 in Kassa (today in Slovakia). He himself forged his year of birth to meet the requests for getting the scholarship in Russia.[13]

Sources

References

T. Csaba, Reisz (2017). ,,KEDVES LAJOSOM Csánki Dezső levelei Thallóczy Lajoshoz 1879-1916 [,,MY DEAR LAJOS Letters of Dezső Csánki to Lajos Thallóczy 1879-1916] (PDF) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magyar Történelmi Társulat MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet. ISBN 978-963-416-056-4.
Tibor 2009, p. 217
......u mnogočemu zagonetna ličnost monarhije ... igra isto tako zna čajnu ulogu kao i u naučnom životu. Pomoću svojih 'mentora' grofa Đule Andrašija starijeg, a posebno Benjamina Kalaja, postao je nezaobilazni savetnik u balkanskim odnosima i samom vladaru Franji Josifu, zajedničkim ministrima i Vladi Mađarske.
Filipović 2010, p. 174
izvjestan broj radova posvjetio je problematici bosanske heraldike. Njegov se interes za tu temu javio kada su se širi naučni krugovi počeli intenzivnije baviti analizom heraldičkih izvora i to sve u svrhu rješavanja pitanja odabira "pravog" zemaljskog grba za Bosnu i Hercegovinu.
Filipović 2010, p. 175
Svojim selektivnim pristupom raspoloživim izvorima kao i njihovom tendencioznom interpretacijom Thalloczy je ponudio ideju blisku ugarskoj državnoj tradiciji i političkim aspiracijama.... Upravo je ovo Thalloczyjevo rješenje...poslužilo vlastima da postupe po njegovom prijedlogu
Filipović 2010, p. 177
...njegove nacionalno neutralne boje, žuta i crvena, trebale su "učiniti kraj zloupotrebama sa srpskim i hrvatskim bojama."
Elsie 2012, p. 437
Elsie 2012, p. 437
Clayer, Nathalie (2007), Aux origines du nationalisme albanais: la naissance d'une nation, Karthala, p. 528, ISBN 978-2-84586-816-8, Certains milieux italiens continuaient à envisager un rapprochement entre le Monténégro orthodoxe et le Nord albanais catholique, sous leur propre houlette. En revanche, l' Autriche-Hongrie, qui cherchait à contrer l'avancée serbe et monténégrine en direction de l'Adriatique, avait tout intérêt à renforcer les altérités « albanais >> versus « slave >> et « catholique >> versus « orthodoxe >>. En décembre 1897, l'un des promoteurs du nouveau plan d'action austro-hongrois en Albanie, Ludwig von Thalloczy, affirmait qu'il fallait agir contre l'attraction du Monténégro. Il donnait l'exemple de la littérature populaire serbe qui "avançait" dans les montagnes du Nord, dans les régions de Spuz et de Podgorica, et diffusait une sorte de croyance albano-slave à travers la figure de Skanderbeg présenté en guerrier slave.
Noli 1947, p. 20
Filipović 2010, p. 175
Na inicijativu Benjamina Kallaya, ministra financija, premješten je u Beč gdje postaje državni savjetnik i direktor arhiva zajedničkog ministarstva financija. Obavljao je i dužnost referenta za kulturne i školske poslove u Bosni i Hercegovini a tokom prvog svetskog rata bio je civilni savjetnik Vojne uprave u okupiranoj Srbiji
Okey 2002, p. 235.
Zoltán 2007, p. 15.
Tibor 2009, p. 217
... Талоци рођен 1857. године и то не у Будиму него у данашњој Кошици).... Годину рођења је променио због тога што је само тако могао добити могућност за студијско путовање у Русију (пошто у време расписивања конкурса није имао довољно година).

Bibliography

Juzbašić, Dževad; Ress, Imre; Gottsman, Andreas (2010). Lajos Thallóczy, der Historiker und Politiker: die Entdeckung der Vergangenheit von Bosnien-Herzegowina und die moderne Geschichtswissenschaft. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-9639627376.
Okey, Robin (2002). "A Trio of Hungarian Balkanists: Béni Kállay, István Burián and Lajos Thallóczy in the Age of High Nationalism". The Slavonic and East European Review. 80 (2): 234–266. JSTOR 4213438.
Tibor, Pal (2009), Lajoš Taloci, naučnik i političar [Ludwig Thallóczy, scientist and politician]
Filipović, Emir (2010), "Lajos Thallóczy i bosanska heraldika", Radovi [Works] (in Bosnian), XVI/1, Sarajevo: Filozofski Fakultet u Sarajevu
Zoltán, Hajdú (2007). "Hungarian researches on the Southeast-European space (the Balkans): Continuity, interruption or permanent re-start". In Zoltán, Hajdú (ed.). Southeast-Europe: State Borders, Cross-border Relations, Spatial Structures. Centre for Regional Studies. ISBN 978-9639052659.
Elsie, Robert (2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-780764-31-3.

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[cnote_A] 
In almost all encyclopedias and works on Thallóczy is written that he was born in Buda in 1854 which was his official year of birth until his death. It was later discovered that he was in fact born in 1857 in Kassa (today in Slovakia). He himself forged his year of birth to meet the requests for getting the scholarship in Russia.[13]

[1] T. Csaba, Reisz (2017). ,,KEDVES LAJOSOM Csánki Dezső levelei Thallóczy Lajoshoz 1879-1916 [,,MY DEAR LAJOS Letters of Dezső Csánki to Lajos Thallóczy 1879-1916] (PDF) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magyar Történelmi Társulat MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet. ISBN 978-963-416-056-4.

[2] Tibor 2009, p. 217
......u mnogočemu zagonetna ličnost monarhije ... igra isto tako zna čajnu ulogu kao i u naučnom životu. Pomoću svojih 'mentora' grofa Đule Andrašija starijeg, a posebno Benjamina Kalaja, postao je nezaobilazni savetnik u balkanskim odnosima i samom vladaru Franji Josifu, zajedničkim ministrima i Vladi Mađarske.

[3] Filipović 2010, p. 174
izvjestan broj radova posvjetio je problematici bosanske heraldike. Njegov se interes za tu temu javio kada su se širi naučni krugovi počeli intenzivnije baviti analizom heraldičkih izvora i to sve u svrhu rješavanja pitanja odabira "pravog" zemaljskog grba za Bosnu i Hercegovinu.

[4] Filipović 2010, p. 175
Svojim selektivnim pristupom raspoloživim izvorima kao i njihovom tendencioznom interpretacijom Thalloczy je ponudio ideju blisku ugarskoj državnoj tradiciji i političkim aspiracijama.... Upravo je ovo Thalloczyjevo rješenje...poslužilo vlastima da postupe po njegovom prijedlogu

[5] Filipović 2010, p. 177
...njegove nacionalno neutralne boje, žuta i crvena, trebale su "učiniti kraj zloupotrebama sa srpskim i hrvatskim bojama."

[6] Elsie 2012, p. 437

[7] Elsie 2012, p. 437

[8] Clayer, Nathalie (2007), Aux origines du nationalisme albanais: la naissance d'une nation, Karthala, p. 528, ISBN 978-2-84586-816-8, Certains milieux italiens continuaient à envisager un rapprochement entre le Monténégro orthodoxe et le Nord albanais catholique, sous leur propre houlette. En revanche, l' Autriche-Hongrie, qui cherchait à contrer l'avancée serbe et monténégrine en direction de l'Adriatique, avait tout intérêt à renforcer les altérités « albanais >> versus « slave >> et « catholique >> versus « orthodoxe >>. En décembre 1897, l'un des promoteurs du nouveau plan d'action austro-hongrois en Albanie, Ludwig von Thalloczy, affirmait qu'il fallait agir contre l'attraction du Monténégro. Il donnait l'exemple de la littérature populaire serbe qui "avançait" dans les montagnes du Nord, dans les régions de Spuz et de Podgorica, et diffusait une sorte de croyance albano-slave à travers la figure de Skanderbeg présenté en guerrier slave.

[9] Noli 1947, p. 20

[10] Filipović 2010, p. 175
Na inicijativu Benjamina Kallaya, ministra financija, premješten je u Beč gdje postaje državni savjetnik i direktor arhiva zajedničkog ministarstva financija. Obavljao je i dužnost referenta za kulturne i školske poslove u Bosni i Hercegovini a tokom prvog svetskog rata bio je civilni savjetnik Vojne uprave u okupiranoj Srbiji

[FOOTNOTEOkey2002235-11] Okey 2002, p. 235.

[FOOTNOTEZoltán200715-12] Zoltán 2007, p. 15.

[13] Tibor 2009, p. 217
... Талоци рођен 1857. године и то не у Будиму него у данашњој Кошици).... Годину рођења је променио због тога што је само тако могао добити могућност за студијско путовање у Русију (пошто у време расписивања конкурса није имао довољно година).

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