AZ IDEGEN KULTÚRA VARÁZSA. Egy felfedező kedvű házaspár a 19. század derekán
THE CHARMS OF FOREIGN CULTURE. AN EXPLORER COUPLE IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY

Author(s): Zsuzsa Tapodi
Subject(s): Culture and social structure
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: foreign culture; explorers; Baron Auguste de Gérando; mid-19th century; La Transylvanie et ses habitants; Emma Teleki;
Summary/Abstract: In 1845, Baron Auguste de Gérando (1819–1849) summarized his knowledge acquired about the homeland of his wife, Countess Emma Teleki, in two volumes entitled La Transylvanie et ses habitants, intended for French readers. An active participant in the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–49, the well-educated young man studied and recorded the ethnic groups he met in Transylvania with exemplary openness and understanding. In her old age, his widow, Countess Emma Teleki (1809–1893),published her informative book entitled De Gerando Ágostné, gr. Teleki Emma görögországi levelei és a régi Attikának hiteles kútfők utáni leírása [Ágostné De Gerando, Countess Emma Teleki’s Letters from Greece and the Description of Old Attica Based on Authentic Sources] in 1873. The questions to be answered in the study are as follows: What kind of intellectual network is formed around the couple? What is the intellectual man who moves from more developed countries to Transylvania attentive to, and what does the travelling lady notice in the countries she visits? What kind of auto- and hetero image can be observed in the examined writings? What is the purpose of publishing these writings?

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