Gjuro Szabo (ˈdʑûrɔ ˈsâbo, sometimes also Đuro Szabo; February 3, 1875 in Novska

Novska

Novska is a town in Croatian Slavonia, located between Kutina and Nova Gradiška, southeast of the capital, Zagreb. It has a total population of 13,573 in the following settlements:* Bair, population 6* Borovac, population 276* Brestača, population 911...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

 – May 2, 1943 in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Croatia) was a Croatian historian

Historian

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, art conserver and museologist. He published over 200 papers about Croatian national history, the history of art

History of art

The History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...

, art conservation, museology

Museology

Museology is the diachronic study of museums and how they have established and developed in their role as an educational mechanism under social and political pressures.-Overview:...

 and toponomastics, such as Medieval cities of Croatia and Slavonia, Through the Croatian Hinterland

Hrvatsko Zagorje

Hrvatsko Zagorje is a region north of Zagreb, Croatia. It comprises the whole area north of Medvednica mountain up to Slovenia in the north and west, and up to the regions of Međimurje and Podravina in the north and east...

and Old Zagreb. From 1911 to 1943, he was the secretary of the State Committee for Landmark Preservation in Croatia and Slavonia, and from 1929 the manager of the Zagreb City Museum

Zagreb City Museum

Zagreb City Museum or Museum of the City of Zagreb located in 20 Opatička Street, was established in 1907 by the Association of the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon . It is located in a restored monumental complex of the former Convent of the Poor Clares, of 1650...

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Work

• "Medieval cities in Croatia and Slavonia" , Zagreb, 1920
• "Notes about building the Zagreb Cathedral" (Prilozi za građevnu povijest zagrebačke katedrale), Zagreb, 1929
• "A selection of Zagreb's early days" (Iz starih dana Zagreba), Zagreb, 1929 (vol. I), 1930 (vol. II), 1933 (vol. III)
• "The art of our holiday churches" (Umjetnost u našim ladanjskim crkvama), Zagreb, 1930
• "Through the Croatian Hinterland", (Kroz Hrvatsko zagorje), Zagreb, 1939
• "Old Zagreb", (Stari Zagreb), Zagreb, 1941