Misplaced Pages

Pietro Stancovich

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Priest, historian and inventor
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Croatian. (February 2021) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the Croatian article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Croatian Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|hr|Petar Stanković}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Pietro Stancovich
Pietro Mattia Stancovich
Born(1771-02-24)February 24, 1771
Barban, Stato da Màr, Republic of Venice
DiedSeptember 12, 1852(1852-09-12) (aged 81)
Barban, Austrian Littoral, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary
Other namesPetar Stanković
EducationUniversity of Padua, 1795
Occupation(s)Priest, historian, inventor

Pietro Mattia Stancovich or Petar Matija Stanković (Barban, February 24, 1771 – Barban, September 12, 1852) was a priest, historian and inventor, born in Istria.

Biography

He studied theology in Padua, was ordained in Pula and then appointed a canon in Barban. He self-published a total of twenty books, including a biography of prominent Istrians. Stancovic was also an inventor, constructing a sowing plow and two devices intended for the processing of olives (the spolpoliva and torchioliva). He wrote a treatise about his inventions, published in 1840. In Rovinj there is a library containing thousands of his books, called the Stancoviciana.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Pietro Stancovich". istrianet. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Stancovich (Stanković), Pietro". Istrapedia. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "Stankovic, Petar Matija". Croatian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 January 2021.

External links

Categories: