Josip Šišković

Josip Šišković (in foreign sources: József Siskovics; Josef Siskowitz; Joseph Siskovich; 2 July 1719 – February 4, 1783) was a Habsburg senior military officer and official of Croatian origin, a member of the Šišković noble family[1] [2] residing in Bačka.

He held the rank of artillery general of the imperial army of the Habsburg monarchy and the title of count.

He married relatively late (9 January 1759), at the age of forty to Baroness Barbara Harruckern (born 19 November 1739).

He joined the Habsburg Imperial Army at the age of nineteen, and at the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) he was part of the newly-formed so-called Haller's infantry.

In 1763 he was appointed a member of the Court War Council, and soon after that he was sent as a military-political commissioner to Erdelj (Transylvania), where there was a revolt of the Sikulci (Sekelj), the Hungarian national minority in the area.

[6] In 1769 he became the chief inspector general of the Habsburg army for the border areas of the Monarchy Military Frontier and was involved in the process of its reorganization.

Four years later, on 30 April 1779, he was transferred to the post of military commander of Bohemia (Czechoslovakia) based in Prague.

His body was buried in the chapel of St. Sigismund of Burgundy in the Cathedral of St. Vitus in Prague, where his tombstone can still be seen today.