Ćiro Truhelka

Ćiro Truhelka (February 2, 1865 in Osijek – September 18, 1942 in Zagreb) was a Croatian archaeologist.

Truhelka finished grade school and gymnasium in Osijek and went to university in Zagreb. He was the first custodian of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He coined the name bosančica for Bosnian Cyrillic.^[1]

Truhelka made many important findings about pre-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Prozor-Rama he verified the legend of Grabovac's Virgin (Diva Grabovčeva) when he recovered the remains of a young woman from the 16th or 17th century.^[2] In 1888, Truhelka excavated the alleged remains of king Stjepan Tomašević, which are now housed in the Franciscan monastery in Jajce.^[3]

Works

• Uspomene jednog pionira, Croatian Publishing and Bibliographic Institute, 1942

References

1. ^ Croatian Cyrillic Script
2. ^ Diva Grabovčeva
3. ^ Parish news

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Name	Truhelka, Ciro
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Date of birth	February 2, 1865
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Date of death	September 18, 1942
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