Johannes de Thurocz

Latin: magister ("judge")

Johannes de Thurocz
The first page of Thuroczy's chronicle
The first page of Thuroczy's chronicle
Bornc. 1435
Died1488 or 1489
OccupationHistorian
LanguageLatin
NationalityKingdom of Hungary
Alma materPremonstratensian monastery in Ipolyság
Years active1486 – 1488
Notable worksChronica Hungarorum

Johannes de Thurocz (Hungarian: Thuróczi János; Slovak: Ján z Turca or Ján de Turocz, German: Johannes de Thurocz, variant contemporary spelling: de Thwrocz) (c. 1435 – 1488 or 1489), was a Hungarian historian[1][2] and the author of the Latin Chronica Hungarorum ("Chronicle of the Hungarians"), the most extensive 15th-century work on Hungary, and the first chronicle of Hungary written by a layman.

  1. ^ Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1978). The Papacy and the Levant. Diane. p. 182. ISBN 9780871691279. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  2. ^ Boia, Lucian, ed. (1989). Great historians from antiquity to 1800: an international dictionary. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780313245176. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

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