Lajos Thallóczy, (Budim, 8. December 1856. – Herceghalom, 1. December 1916.) was a Hungarian historian, archivist and high public servant.

His main interests were Bosnian history, especially genealogy, heraldry and biographies of prominent individuals from its medieval period. He published numerous Cyrillic and Latin charters, and also works about the duke Hrvoje Vukčić

Hrvoje Vukcic

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, history of Jajce

Jajce

Jajce is a city and municipality located in the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity...

 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.

He died in a train accident while returning from the funeral of the emperor Franz Joseph I.

Literature

• Sima Ćirković, Taloci (Thallóczy) Lajos, “Enciklopedija srpske istoriografije (Priredili Sima Ćirković i Rade Mihaljčić)”, Beograd 1997, 668-669.
• H. Heppner, Serbien im Jahre 1889 nach einem Bericht Ludwig von Thallóczy’s, Mitteilungen des österreichischen Staatsarchivs 41, 1990, 156-193.
• Thallóczy Lajos et al., “Opća enciklopedija Jugoslovenskog Leksikografskog zavoda, 8 (Š-Žva)”, Zagreb 1982, 198.

External links

• Thallóczy Lajos és köre Bécsben (Hungarian)