Baltazar Adam Krčelić

Balthasar Adam Kercselich (Croatian: Baltazar Adam Krčelić; born February 5, 1715 in Šenkovec at Agram, † March 29, 1778 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian nobleman, historian, theologian and jurist.

Kercselich was dean and rector in Zagreb the Croatian College in Vienna. He wrote in Latin and Croatian- kajkavischer language. His most important works he wrote about the Agramer church history until the 17th century and the political history of the Kingdom of Croatia by the 1564th His " Annuae " are a valuable source for the history of the specified period with detailed information on the situation in Croatia.

After Vitezović he is the most prominent figure of the Croatian cultural life of his time.

Works

• Zivlenje blaženoga Gazotti Augustina. Agram 1747, 8 °.
• De regnis Dalmatiae Croatiae, Sclavoniae Notitiae praeliminares periodus IV distinctae quibus ex scopo et fine post veteris Pannoniae praecipue Saviae su Florente decrescenteque Romano Imperio ... Zagrabia, Jandera, [ca 1775 ], 522 pp.
• De jure Archidiaconi ex officio comuni canonico, municipalibus quoque legibus Securior tutiorque deductio ad parochos et ecclesiasticos Archidiaconatus Chasmensis cum Catalogo Archidiaconorum Chasmensium from anno 1660 usque 1770. Zagrabiae sa, 4 °
• De regnis Dalmatiae, Croatiae, Sclavoniæ, Notitiae præliminares, Periodis quatuor distinctas ... Agram 1770, fol
• Historia ecclesiae cathedralis Zagrabiensis. Partis I tomus primus praemissis praeliminaribus continens Seriem episcoporum ac anno MXCI ad anum MDCIII. ibid 1770, fol
• Korespondencija Krčelićeva i nješto gradje iz njegove velike pravde. Zagreb 1876
• Annuae 1748-1767, proœmio praemisso ... edited by T [ ade ] Smičiklas, Jugoslavenska Akad znanosti i Umjetnosti, Zagreb 1901 ( = Monumenta spectantia historia Slavorum meridionalium, 30). Internet Archive