Juraj Haulik (1788-1869) was a church dignitary and the first cardinal of Croatia. Born in Trnava, he studied there and in Esztergom and Vienna. He was consecrated priest in 1811 and worked in Komárno before becoming a canon in Esztergom in 1825. There followed posts as counsellor at the Hungarian Royal Governor's Office in Budina and subsequently at the Hungarian Royal Court Office in Vienna. From 1832 he was provost in Zagreb, becoming that city's first archbishop in 1852. In 1856 he was made the first cardinal of Croatia. Juraj Haulik died in Zagreb on May 11th, 1869. In Croatia he...