page_title: Josip Jelačić
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Josip Jelačić / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Español: Estatua de Ban Jelačić, Zagreb, CroaciaEnglish: Ban Jelačić statue, Zagreb, Croatia
context_page_description: Count Josip Jelačić von Bužim was a Croatian lieutenant field marshal in a Imperial-Royal Army and politician, the Ban of Croatia between 23 March 1848 and 19 April 1859. He was a member of the House of Jelačić and a noted army general, remembered for his military campaigns during the Revolutions of 1848 and for his abolition of serfdom in Croatia.
context_section_description: He died on 20 May 1859 in Zagreb, after an illness. He is buried in Zaprešić, in a grave near his castle.
  In his time and shortly after, Jelačić was a fairly unpopular figure among the Croatian political elite, including Ante Starčević and others, and especially among the people who suffered losses due to his military campaigns and had little benefit from his economic measures.
  Today, Jelačić is considered an important and admirable figure in Croatian history, alongside Ante Starčević, and Stjepan Radić, the Croatian political leader until 1928. The central square of the city of Zagreb was named Ban Jelačić Square in 1848, and a statue of him by Anton Dominik Fernkorn was erected in the square in 1866, removed under Communist rule in 1947, and reinstalled in 1990, after the fall of Communism.
  In 2020, the home in which Jelačić was born was returned to the Croatian minority after being purchased by the Serbian government. It is slated to reopen in October, on the 219th anniversary of Jelačić's birth.
  The patriotic song "Ustani bane" (Rise, Ban) was written to glorify Jelačić.
  In Hungary, he is a very unpopular historical figure. He is often referred to as "Jelasics the coward," who "runs back to Vienna with his army beaten", quote from Sándor Petőfi's poem A vén zászlótartó.
  Jelačić's portrait is depicted on the obverse of the Croatian 20 kuna banknote, issued in 1993 and 2001.
  In 2008, a total of 211 streets in Croatia were named after Josip Jelačić, making him the fourth most common person eponym of streets in the country.
caption: Statue of ban Jelačić in Zagreb
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