1st Edition
Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa
By Robert Elsie
Copyright 2014
250 Pages
by
Central European University Press
250 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
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.
Biography
Robert Elsie is a writer, translator, interpreter, and specialist in Albanian studies. He is the author of over sixty books and countless articles on Albanian literature, history, and folk culture. 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.
