BALTAZAR BOGIŠIĆ

Baltazar Bogišić (also known as Valtazar Bogišić; 7 December 1834 - 24 April 1908) was a Serbian jurist, law historian and ethnologist.

In domain of private law his most notable works are researches on family structure and the unique Montenegrin civil code from 1888. He is considered to be a pioneer in the area of sociology of law and legal ethnology research. Many of his theoretical remarks were acknowledged or rethought decades after his death.