Josip Gelčić
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| Born | 26 November 1849 Kotor, Principality of Montenegro |
| Died | 4 February 1925 Gorica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes |
| Nationality | Serbian Montenegrin |
| Education | University of Graz |
| Occupation | Historian, Professor |
| Known for | Research on the cultural, political, and maritime history of the Gulf of Kotor, Dubrovnik, and the eastern Adriatic coast |
Josip Gelčić (Kotor, Principality of Montenegro, 26 November 1849 — Gorica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, 4 February 1925) was a prominent Serbian Montenegrin historian and professor of the 19th- and early 20th-century..[1] He was a contemporary of Valtazar Bogišić and Frano Getaldić-Gundulić.
Biography
After finishing high school in Dubrovnik in 1869, he briefly served in the port administration. He then graduated in history, geography, and Italian language in Graz. From 1876, he taught at the Nautical School in Dubrovnik, from 1904 at the Commercial and Maritime Academy, and from 1905 until his retirement in 1909, he headed its nautical department. He dealt with history, archives, paleography, and epigraphy, and in 1881 he was appointed the first conservator for the Dubrovnik and Kotor area. In 1885, he was entrusted with the duty of inventorying and keeping the materials of the Dubrovnik Archives. Josip Gelčić devoted most of his varied scientific interests to the cultural, political, and maritime past of Gulf of Kotor, Dubrovnik, and the eastern Adriatic coast.
Works
In publications:
- Il Dalmata (1880),
- Programma dell' scuola nautica di Ragusa (1882–85, 1888–89, 1891–94;
- Report of the nautical school in Dubrovnik, (1900–01),
- Smotra dalmatinska (1889, 1895, 1901),
- Mitteilungen der K. K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Kunst- und historischen Denkmale (Vienna 1891),
- Archeografo triestino (1903–06)
- Memorial Book on the fiftieth anniversary of the existence of nautical school in Dubrovnik (Split 1903).
Almost all his studies were printed as books or special prints.
- History of the Navy of the Gulf of Kotor (1872),
- Cultural, artistic, and literary sights of the Gulf of Kotor (1879),
- A political history of Boka until 1492 (1880),
- A monograph on the brotherhood of the Bokel navy with hot springs (1889),
- Perast sailing ships in battles with pirates 1693–1755.
He wrote several books in Latin and Italian based on his research:
- Monumenta Ragusina IV[2];
- Monumenta Ragusina: libri reformationum. Ann. 1359-1364, Volumes 2[3] & 3[4];
- Monumenta Ragusina: libri reformationum, Vol 5 [5];
- Piero Solderini profugo a Ragusa: memorie e documenti[6];
- Memorie storiche sulla Bocche di Cattaro[7]
References
- ↑ "JELČIĆ, Josip - Hrvatski biografski leksikon".
- ↑ "Josip Gelčić: Monumenta Ragusina IV".
- ↑ Monumenta Ragusina: Libri reformationum. Sumptibus Academiae scientiarum et artium. 1882.
- ↑ Monumenta ragusina: Libri reformationum. Ann. 1359-1364. Academia scientiarum et artium slavorum meridionalim. 1895.
- ↑ Monumenta Ragusina: Libri reformationum. 1897.
- ↑ Gelčić, Josip (1894). "Piero Soderini profugo a Ragusa: Memorie e documenti".
- ↑ https://search.worldcat.org/title/Memorie-storiche-sulle-Bocche-di-Cattaro/oclc/464332600
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