Title Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer : a Transylvanian Baron at the birth of Albanian Independence. The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa / edited and translated by Robert Elsie

Published Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages, 8 unnumbered of pages of plates) : illustrations, photographs Contents Initial travels (1903-1904) -- Research in Albania (1905-1910) -- Between the annexation and the Balkan War (1910-1912) -- From the Balkan War to the World War (1912-1914) -- Index of names and places Summary '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.' -- Details from the publisher Analysis Albania, Balkan, Biography, Habsburg Empire, History, Memoir, Ottoman Empire, Travel, World War I Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877-1933 -- Travel -- Balkan Peninsula Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877-1933 -- Travel -- Albania SUBJECT Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877-1933 fast Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. Travel SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel Albania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003180 Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011198 Subject Albania Balkan Peninsula Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Elsie, Robert, 1950-2017, editor, translator ISBN 9786155225819 6155225818

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