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Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer : a Transylvanian Baron at the birth of Albanian Independence. The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa /
'The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travellers and scholars of south-eastern Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a palaeontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Budapest, Hungary :
Central European University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travellers and scholars of south-eastern Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a palaeontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula. The memoirs of this fascinating figure of Albanian and Balkan scholarship deal mainly with his travels in the Balkans, specifically in the remote and wild mountains of northern Albania, in the years from 1903 to 1914. They thus cover the period of Ottoman rule, the Balkan Wars, Albanian independence and the outbreak of the First World War. Nopcsa was a keen adventurer who hiked through regions of northern Albania where no foreigner had ever been. He got to know the natives well, learned their language and their way of life, and, with time, became a leading expert in Albanian studies. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the period, often to the frustration of the Ballhausplatz, the Austro-Hungarian foreign ministry. In 1913 Nopcsa even offered himself as a candidate for the vacant Albanian throne.' -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 pages, 8 unnumbered of pages of plates) : illustrations, photographs |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9786155225819 6155225818 |