Üzleti úton a színigazgató: Christoph Seipp 18. századi útleírása Magyarországról
A Theatre Director on Business Trip: The Eighteenth-Century Description of Hungary by Christoph Seipp

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with eighteenth-century travelogues written either by Hungarians travelling to western parts of Europe, or by foreigners visiting the Kingdom of Hungary in the second part of the century. The main focus, however, lies on the works of Christoph Seipp, alias Johann Lehmann, born in Worms. Seipp at that time worked at the theater in Preßburg – he was the director of the institution – and undertook at least two travels to Upper Hungary and the Zips as well as to Moldavia and Silesia. Seipp published two volumes (in 1785 and 1793) on his travels that can be approached in manifold ways. The author, on the one hand, aimed at analysing the political judgement of Seipp on the echo that Joseph II’s politics provoked among the Hungarian population. On the other hand, the paper shows how Seipp's works fi t into the new genre of eighteenth-century travelogues not longer written as general descriptions of a land or country based on old books but more as personal travel diaries.

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