Education
Truhelka finished grade school and gymnasium in Osijek and went to university in Zagreb.
Truhelka finished grade school and gymnasium in Osijek and went to university in Zagreb.
He was the first custodian of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He coined the name bosančica for Bosnian Cyrillic. In March 1939 Truhelka was the president of Društvo bosansko-hercegovačkih Hrvata u Zagrebu (Society of the Bosnia-Herzegovinian Croats in Zagreb).
On the other hand, Serbs belonged to the degenerate race of the Vlachs, similar to the Jews and Armenians.
Truhelka made many important findings about pre-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Prozor-Rama he verified the legend of Grabovac"s Virgin (Diva Grabovčeva) when he recovered the remains of a young woman from the 16th or 17th century.
In 1888, Truhelka excavated the alleged remains of king Stjepan Tomašević, which are now housed in the Franciscan monastery in Jajce.