Lazar Mamula

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Lazar Mamula depicted in a lithography by Josef Kriehuber.

Lazar Mamula (22 May 1795 – 12 January 1878) was an

Gulf of Kotor[2] and his active association with other Slavic leaders in the Habsburg monarchy at the time.[3]

Biography

Lazar Mamula was a Serb from Gorski Kotar, Croatia, born in 1795 in Gomirje, at the time of the Habsburg monarchy. He was actually born in the hamlet next to the monastery of Gomirje, in "Mamula", the hamlet after which his "tribe" is named.[4]

He graduated from the Military Engineering Academy in

Order of St. Anna II class. Lazar von Mamula received the rank of major general in 1850 from the Austrian Emperor and in 1853 the rank of field marshal (lieutenant marshal). Baron Mamula was appointed by Francis I in 1857 commander of Dalmatia, in 1859 governor of Dalmatia and 1865 conferred on him the rank of General of the Artillery. He retired with the same title -- Feldzeigmeister. [4]He was the godfather at the Montenegrin Prince Danilo
's wedding.

He was the viceroy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia from 1859 to 1865. He was then the military and civilian governor of Dalmatia.[4]

In the middle of the 19th century, he built a fortification on the island of

Lastavica at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor
. After him, this island was named Mamula.

In 1858, Baron Mamula founded the Dalmatian Invalids Foundation with an initial capital of 20,000

St. George in Ogulin. The bells were donated to the church by Emperor Francis Joseph I himself, while the iconostasis was donated to the church by Baron Mamula.[5]

Baron Mamula died in Vienna on 12 January 1878.

Later Fleet Admiral Branko Mamula is a descendant of his.

Ranks

  • Kadett-feldwebel (cadet-sergeant) awarded in 1815,
  • Hauptmann (captain) awarded in 1831,
  • Major (major) awarded in 1841,
  • Oberst (Colonel) awarded in 1848,
  • Major General
    (Major General) awarded in 1850,
  • Feldmarschalleutnant
    (sub-marshal) awarded in 1853,
  • Feldzeugmeister
    (artillery general) awarded in 1865.

Medals

Austrian Empire

Russian Empire

  • Order of St. Anna
    II class (Orden Svjatoi Anny, II)

References

  1. ^ "Mamula, Lazar". Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  2. ISBN 9781405384254
    .
  3. ^ Mining-geological-petroleum Engineering Bulletin. Fakultet. 1994.
  4. ^ a b c "Школски лист", Нови Сад 1866. године
  5. ^ "Pravoslavna Crkva Sv. Georgija". Grad Ogulin. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 10 Dec 2013.
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