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Autobiography Of Miklos Bethlen (Paperback)
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Autobiography Of Miklos Bethlen (Paperback)
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First published in 2005. The Bethlen family was an ancient noble
house of considerable wealth and influence in Transylvania. The
writer of this autobiography Count Miklos (born 1642) was a General
in 1682, Privy Councillor in 1689, Foispan in 1690 and Chancellor
in 1691, after an excellent education and distinguished career in
public life. He then clashed with General Rabutin, from 1696 the
Austrian Commander in chief in Transylvania, which led to his
arrest and imprisonment on a charge of treason in 1703. His
autobiography, one of the most extensive of the literary memoirs
that came from Transylvania at the period (among them the Letters
from Turkey of Kelemen Mikes and Metamorphosis Transylvaniae of
Peter Apor, both published by Kegan Paul in Bernard Adam's English
translation), was written in prison and under sentence of death in
Hungary and Austria. Transferred to Viennese confinement in 1708
and pardoned by Emperor Charles III in 1712, Bethlen was never
allowed to return to Transylvania, spent his last years in relative
freedom in Vienna, and died in 1716.
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