Editing Milan Šufflay (section)

==Early life==
Šufflay was born into a lower{{sfn|Horvat|1965|p=173}} noble family (hence ''pl.'', ''plemeniti'', "noble", equivalent of ''von'') in [[Lepoglava]], in the [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]] to Augustin Šufflay (1847–190?), a teacher, and Franciska Welle von Vorstern (1847–1910), a [[Germans of Hungary|German Hungarian]] from [[Osijek]].{{sfn|Horvat|1965|p=174}} The family coat of arms was included in ''Der Adel von Kroatien und Slavonien'' (1899) as "Sufflay de Otrussevcz".<ref name="Siebmacher1986">{{cite book|author=Johann Siebmacher|title=Der Adel von Kroatien und Slavonien|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FVmAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Bauer & Raspe|isbn=978-3-87947-035-8}}</ref> Their original surname was Sufflei or Schufflei, and their estate was [[Otruševec]].

He attended a comprehensive high school in [[Zagreb]] and studied [[history]] at the [[University of Zagreb]]. He received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1901 from the same university with the thesis ''Croatia and the Last Endeavor of the [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Empire]] Under the Scepter of Three [[Komnenos]] (1075–1180)''.<ref>[http://digitalna.nsk.hr/?object=info&id=10589 Digitalne zbirke Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu]. Digitalna.nsk.hr. Retrieved on 11 January 2019.</ref> He was a brilliant student both in high school and at the university. Already during his studies, he spoke French, German, Italian, English, all the Slavic languages, as well as Latin, old Greek, and middle Greek. Later in life, he learned modern Greek, Albanian, Hebrew, and Sanskrit. [[Tadija Smičiklas]] considered Šufflay his most gifted student and took him as his assistant when editing ''Codex Diplomaticus'' of the [[Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts|Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131102023837/http://seminarskirad.biz/seminarski/milan%20shufflay-izabrani_politicki_spisi.pdf Milan Šufflay. Selected Political Writings], [[Matica hrvatska]], Zagreb, 2000., ed. Dubravko Jelčić, Miljan Šufflay's Chronicle, p. 26.-29., retrieved 17 January 2018</ref>

Šufflay became a historian of the [[Balkans]] and was convinced that the history of the [[Croats]] can only be researched properly from that perspective.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} This conviction clashed with the prevailing opinion of Croatian historians that the Croats were representatives of the West, as opposed to the Balkans. Ignoring the proposal of the university senate, [[Ban (title)|Ban]] [[Pavao Rauch]] appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when [[Nikola Tomašić]], his distant cousin and enemy, became a Ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave the university. No longer exempt from military duty as a university professor, he was drafted in early 1915 but was soon released because of illness. He wrote his most important works during this period.