Johannes Lucius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Venetian Dalmatian historian
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Place of Birth: Trogir, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
Date of Death: 11-Jan-1679
Profession: historian
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Johannes Lucius
- Johannes Lucius (Croatian: Ivan Lucic; Italian: Giovanni Lucio; September 1604 – 11 January 1679) was a Dalmatian historian, whose greatest work is De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae ("On the Kingdom of Dalmatia and Croatia"), which includes valuable historical sources, a bibliography and six historical maps. Born in September 1640 in Trogir in a noble family, Lucius studied in Trogir and Rome, graduating philosophy, mathematics, political sciences and literature in 1628, and receiving Ph.D.
- in civil and canonical law in 1630.
- Following graduation, he worked as councilmen and judge in his hometown and developed intensive scientific-research work.
- His first book Vita B.
- Ioannis confessoris episcopi Traguriensis et eius miracula [Life of St.
- John the Confessor, Bishop of Trogir] (1657) is an important source of Croatian, and especially Dalmatian, history between 11th and 13th centuries.
- His capital work is De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae [On the Kingdom of Dalmatia and Croatia] (1662) in which he described the history of Dalmatia between the Roman times and 1480.
- The book contains the genealogy of Croatian dukes and kings and six historical Illyrian maps, regarded in Croatia as "the first Croatian atlas".
- The best known is map no.
- 6, Illyricum hodiernum [Present-day Illyricum], which Lucius dedicated to the Croatian ban Petar Zrinski, later included in Blaeu's Atlas Maior.
- In the book Memorie istoriche di Tragurio ora detto Traù [Historical testimonies about Trogir, now called Traù], he described the history of Trogir and Dalmatia to the mid 15th century.
- His book Inscriptiones Dalmaticae [Dalmatian Inscriptions] (1673) contains inscriptions and epigraphic monuments from Dalmatian heritage.
- In addition to his many other historical works, Lucius also engaged in archeology, geography, mathematics, physics, astronomy, construction and studying of ancient Christian monuments, Roman mosaics and inscriptions. He was a member of the Pontifical Croatian College of St.
- Jerome in whose catacombs he was buried after his death in January 1679.
- Today, Lucius is widely regarded in Croatia as "the father of modern Croatian historiography".
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