TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nopcsa,Franz
AU  - Elsie,Robert
TI  - Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer: A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa 
SN  - 9786155225819
AV  - DR15 .T738 2014
U1  - 914.9604/38 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Budapest, New York : 
PB  - Central European University Press, 
KW  - Albania -- Description and travel
KW  - Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel
KW  - Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Nopcsa, Ferencz, -- báró, -- 1877-1933 -- Travel -- Albania
KW  - Nopcsa, Ferencz, -- báró, -- 1877-1933 -- Travel -- Balkan Peninsula
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Albania, Balkan, Biography, Habsburg Empire, History, Memoir, Ottoman Empire, Travel, World War I
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Initial Travels (1903–1904) --; Part II. Research in Albania (1905–1910) --; Part III. Between the Annexation and the Balkan War (1910–1912) --; Part IV. From the Balkan War to the World War (1912–1914) --; Bibliography --; Index of Personal and Place Names --; Glossary of Place Names; restricted access
N2  - The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula : many of his assumptions have been confirmed by science. The Memoirs of this fascinating figure deal mainly with his travels in the Balkans, and 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 and the outbreak of the First World War. Nopcsa was a keen adventurer who hiked through regions of northern Albania. With time, he became a leading expert in Albanian studies. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the period. In 1913, Nopcsa even offered himself as a candidate for the vacant Albanian throne. The Introduction also tells of Nopcsa's tragic death: he shot his Albanian secretary and partner before killing himself. The memoirs themselves reveal some references to his homosexuality for those who can read between the lines
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155225819
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9786155225819
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9786155225819/original
ER  -