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Milan pl. Šufflay (9 November 1879 – 18 February 1931) was a Croatian historian and politician. He was one of the founders of Albanology and the author of the first Croatian science fiction novel. As a Croatian nationalist, he was persecuted in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and his murder subsequently caused an internationally publicized affair. ==Early life== Šufflay was born in an aristocratic family in Lepoglava, in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. That is why he has in his last name ''pl.'', from Croatian ''plemeniti'', "noble", which is ''von'' in German and it is title of a nobleman in Austria-Hungary. He attended a comprehensive high school in Zagreb and studied at the University of Zagreb, where he got a Ph.D. in history. He was a brilliant student both in high school and at the university. Already during his studies, he spoke French, German, Italian, English, all the Slavic languages, as well as Latin, old Greek and middle Greek. Later in life he learned modern Greek, Albanian, Hebrew and Sanskrit. Tadija Smičiklas considered Šufflay his most gifted student and took him as his assistant when editing ''Codex diplomaticus'' of the Academy. Šufflay became a historian of the Balkans, convinced that the history of the Croats can be properly researched only from that perspective. His conviction clashed with the prevailing opinion of Croatian historians that the Croats were representatives of the West as opposed to the Balkans. He researched the medieval history of Croatia and the history of Albania, for which he would gain international renown. The Hungarian historian Thalloczy, recognizing Šufflay as a great talent that should be on the Hungarian side, brought him to Budapest, where Šufflay worked in the National Museum for a small salary. Ignoring the proposal of the university senate, ban Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when Nikola Tomašić, his distant cousin and enemy, became ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave the university. In early 1915 he was drafted, although university professors were exempt from military duty. He was soon released because of illness and he wrote his most important works in that period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milan Šufflay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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