Ein Beitrag zur Klärung der Frage: Wer war Gottfried von Rottenstein?
A contribution to the clarification of the question: Who was Gottfried von Rottenstein?
Author(s): Andrea SeidlerSubject(s): Social history, Hungarian Literature, 18th Century, Tourism
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Enlightenment; Itinerary; Source research; Karl Gottlieb Windisch; Gottfried von Rottenstein; History of Pressburg;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with clarifying the identity of Pressburger travel writer Gottfried von Rottenstein, who published several descriptions of his travels through Europe in the second half of the 18th century and gained great popularity. The historian Éva H. Balázs saw him as a descendant of the Pálffy family. From handwritten sources it has now been clarified that the person is an ennobled bourgeois from Bratislava.
- Issue Year: 23/2009
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-35
- Page Count: 7
- Language: German
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