HUS (Hosti) Rasinjanin, Juraj (Latin Georgius Huszthius). Rasinja 1510 (or earlier?) — Požun 1566 (or later?). Croatian Traveller. He was forcibly enlistened by Turks in 1532 and lived in Constantinople. Freed in 1536 he took service as a trumpeter by an Egyptian see captain and participated in the expedition sent by Sultan to help the king of Gujarat to reconquer Diu. Some years later he succeeded to escape to Genoa and Rome and finally to his native country. His travel account is preserved in two manuscripts, in Vienna and Vatican.
Publications: “Opis putovanja Jurja Husa”, Starine 13, 1881.
– Opis putovanja Jurja Husa. Descriptio peregrinationis Georgii Huszthii. Urednik Mario Kolar. Prijevod s latinskog Zrinka Blažević. Predgovor Irena Radej Miličić. 184 p. Biblioteka Podraviana. Koprivnica 2017.
Sources: *A. Vlašić, “Georgius Huszthius, a Traveller from Croatia, and his Account of the Ottoman Naval Campaign in India (1538-39)”, AOHu 68, 2015, 349-362; Vyncke, Annuaire 20, 1973, 528; *Croatian Wikipedija (born in the 15th cent.), *Croatian Enciclopedija (born 1510, died after 1566); cro2.salamander-studies.com.
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