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Mihajlo Vučetić
Mihajlo Vučetić ( sr-Cyrl, Михајло Вучетић; c. 1790 – 1882) was a Serbian grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd. Background Trieste and Venice were of great significance for the cultural history of the Serbs at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. A wealthy and well‐organised Serbian community operated in Trieste, producing the biggest names in Serbian culture and more than a dozen successful merchants, shipowners, bankers and philanthropists. The first prominent Trieste representative of the Vučetić family was Mihajlo Vučetić who emigrated to Austria from Venetian Boka Kotorska. Family life Vučetić married Ana Riznić, daughter of Stefan Riznić. They had five children: Katerina, Eliza, Stefan, Djordje and Jovan. Mihajlo Vučetić received a patent of nobility from Bishop Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and the title "noble of Grbalj Grbalj ( sr-Cyrl, Грбаљ), denotes a historic, rural region of the Montenegrin littor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Österreichischer Lloyd
''Österreichischer Lloyd'' (, ) was the largest Austro-Hungarian shipping company. It was founded in 1833. It was based at Trieste in the Austrian Littoral, the main port of the Cisleithanian (Austrian) half of the Dual Monarchy. As a result of the First World War the company was transferred into Italian hands. Operations continued from Trieste under the name Lloyd Triestino; it in turn became Italia Marittima in 2006, and is now part of the Evergreen Group. History In 1833, 19 sea transport insurance companies, banking houses and numerous individual shareholders, among them the Austrian politician Karl Ludwig von Bruck, decided to form the Austrian Lloyd Trieste. Originally the company answered the purpose to exchange information on European maritime trade and oversea markets, modelled on Lloyd's Register in London. Relying on a network of business correspondents and newspapers circulating in the Port of Trieste, it issued shipping news and also undertook to provide po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
