Jellachich, JOSEPH, BARON

Jellachich, JOSEPH, BARON, Austrian general and Ban of Croatia, was born at Peterwardein on 16th October 1801. His father attained some celebrity in the Turkish wars and in those of the French Revolution; the son also adopted the profession of arms. Having won the entire confidence of the Croats, he was in 1848 appointed Ban of Croatia; by this appointment Austria secured the support of the Slavonian Croats against the Magyars of Hungary. Jellachich took an active part in the suppression of the Hungarian rising. He died at Agram, 20th May 1859. Not only a soldier and administrator but a poet, he published a collection of his poems at Vienna in 1851.