Late in the 18th Century Balthasar Hacquet, a French physician and scientist hichhiked throughout Croatia a number of times. He was a protegee of the Emperor Joseph II, who had some political interests for the Adriatic coast like his mother Maria Theresia and he lead a campaign against Turkey in 1788. Balthasar Hacquet was a follower of J. J. Rousseau. A modem scientist, who knew Croatia much better than even the famous Alberto Fortis ctid, who knew the south, Dalmatia only. His wide knowledge of Croatia he displayed in three books where he wrote about geology and the customs of the Croats. Nobody else in his time knew Croatia and the Slavonic nations better than he did.
