Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer: A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence: The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa

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Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer The memoirs of Franz Nopcsa A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence Edited and translated from the German by Robert Elsie Central European University Press Budapest – New York © 2014 by Robert Elsie Published in 2014 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: ceupress@ceu.hu Website: www.ceupress.com 224 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-547-6932 Fax: +1-646-557-2416 E-mail: martin.greenwald@opensocietyfoundations.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 978-615-5225-80-2 Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877 1933. [Reisen in den Balkan. Selections] Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer : A Transylvanian Baron at the birth of Albanian Independence. The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa / edited and translated by Robert Elsie. pages cm „A (partial) English translation of the German language manuscript Reisen in den Balkan : die Lebenserinnerungen des Franz Baron Nopcsa (Travels in the Balkans : the memoirs of Baron Franz Nopcsa) which was edited by Robert Elsie and published in book form in Peja (Kosovo) in 2001; the present English language translation of the memoirs ... was carried out in the years 2011 2012; it comprises the core sections of the German original, though it excludes the material on his early years, his military career in the First World War, and the ... episode of his life when he gave up his social position and lived as a Romanian shepherd in the Carpathian mountains”—Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978 6155225802 (alkaline paper) ISBN 978 0 8108 8034 4 (ebook) 1. Balkan Peninsula—Description and travel. 2. Albania—Description and travel. 3. Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877 1933—Travel—Balkan Peninsula. 4. Nopcsa, Ferencz, báró, 1877 1933—Travel Albania. 5. Balkan Peninsula—History—20th century. 6. Albania—History—1878 1912. 7. Balkan Peninsula History War of 1912 1913. 8. World War, 1914 1918—Balkan Peninsula. I. Elsie, Robert, 1950 II. Title. DR15.N67213 2013 914.9604’38 dc23 2013026163 ...