Josif Pančić
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Josif Pančić was a Serbian botanist, physician, professor and academic. Born in the First French Empire, in present-day Croatia, he earned his medical degree in Hungary before moving to Serbia. He ext
Josif Pančić
Pančić portrait on a 10 Yugoslav dinars note, 1994
Portrait of Pančić, by Đorđe Krstić, 1871
Pančić on a Serbian stamp, 2014
Illyrian Provinces
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The Illyrian Provinces were an autonomous province of France during the First French Empire that existed under Napoleonic Rule from 1809 to 1814. The province encompassed large parts of modern-day Cro
Josif Pančić
…Serbian spruce. He is regarded as the father of Serbian botany. Josif Pančić was born in Ugrine, near Bribir, in the Vinodol region, then part of the Illyrian Provinces of the First French Empire. Pančić was the fourth son of Pavel Pančić and his wife Margarita. His paternal grandfather, who came from the area around…
Napoleon in Austria during the War of the Fifth Coalition