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Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica - The Man Behind the Legend (Hardcover, New)
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Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica - The Man Behind the Legend (Hardcover, New)
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"A visionary and a madman" was how one British statesman, Lord
Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography,
Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by
Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in
1736 had himself crowned the King of Corsica. Theodore von
Neuhoff's career spanned the entire European continent and his role
in the Corsican rebellion against Genoa was as bold and
unconventional as everything else in his life. Mixing with royalty,
rogues and rabble, he was successively a soldier, secret agent,
Jacobite, speculator, alchemist, cabbalist, Rosicrucian,
astrologer, fraudster, and spy. He had changed his name several
times, abducted a nun and seen the inside of several prisons before
turning his hand to revolution. Neuhoff had daring far-sighted
ideas about religious tolerance and the abolition of slavery that
turned the Corsican rebellion into a significant political event
with repercussions way beyond the shores of one small island.
Denounced as an arch-criminal, traitor and seditious heretic, he
survived pursuit by the agents of the Genoese Republic for twenty
years with a price on his head, dodging assassination attempts
while meeting countless famous and fascinating people. Valuable to
the British as a political tool against the French, he spent his
old age in relative comfort in an English debtors' prison. Theodore
von Neuhoff, King of Corsica argues that despite all his
eccentricity Neuhoff was still a significant Enlightenment figure.
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