{"id":113,"date":"2012-01-04T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:30:25","slug":"montesquieu-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/07-1\/interviews-memoirs-and-other-contributions\/montesquieu-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Montesquieu in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\t<div class=\"dkpdf-button-container\" style=\" text-align:right \">\n\n\t\t<a class=\"dkpdf-button\" href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113?pdf=113\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"dkpdf-button-icon\"><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o\"><\/i><\/span> <\/a>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He left Paris probably on the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of April 1728 for Vienna, and arrived in Vienna in the first days of May. He spent a few weeks in the northern parts (today territory of Slovakia i.e. of the Slovak Republic) of the \u201chistorical Hungary\u201d (in Hungarian: T\u00f6rt\u00e9neti Magyarorsz\u00e1g, in French: Hongrie historique). On the 26<sup>th<\/sup> of June he was back in Vienna, and finally he left the (imperial) city on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> of July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is worth noting that the father of Montesquieu, decades earlier, in 1685, as the soldier (officer) of the Prince de Conti, had already traveled in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, the notes of Montesquieu on his journey in Hungary did not survive, but after returning home he compiled his notes entitled <em>M\u00e9moires sur les Mines de Hongrie et Hartz<\/em> in which we can find interesting and important data (informations) concerning the Kingdom of Hungary. We know for sure, that he visited in Pozsony \u2013 then (until 1848) the capital of Hungary \u2013 (in Slovakian: Bratislava, in German: Pressburg, in Latin: Posonium, in French: Presbourg) the National Assembly (Diet) of the Kingdom of Hungary (in Latin: <em>Diaeta<\/em>), and then K\u00f6rm\u00f6cb\u00e1nya (in Slovakian: Kremnica, in German: Kremnitz, in Latin: Cremnicium), Beszterceb\u00e1nya (in Slovakian: Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, in German: Neusohl, in Latin: Neosolium), and \u00dajb\u00e1nya (in Slovakian: Nov\u00e1 Ba?a, in German: K\u00f6nigsberg, in Latin: Regiomontanum), that is to say the cities of Upper Hungary (in French: Haute Hongrie, in Hungarian: Felvid\u00e9k), or more precisely, some, although undoubtedly the most important ones, of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the above-mentioned notes we find details like this \u2013 in English translation: \u201cIn Hungary, you need only to plant the corn in the ground and it grows. It is so, because the lands of Hungary are not under very good cultivation and there the fields rest more.\u201d Or: \u201cThere are three greatly significant places in Hungary: Esz\u00e9k (in Croatian: Osijek, in German: Esseg), which, I think, lies where the Drava and the Danube flow into each other; Belgrade (in Hungarian: N\u00e1ndorfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r) and Temesv\u00e1r (in Romanian: Timi?oara, in German: Temeschwar); Orsova (in Romanian: <em>Or?ova) is, on the shore of the Danube, supplied constantly with artillery batteries which keep the Turks i.e. Ottomans from advancing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interest of the great philosopher, jurist, and political thinker of the French Enlightenment, Charles-Louis de S\u00e9condat, Baron de la Br\u00e8de et de Montesquieu (1689\u20131755), turned after having published the <em>Lettres persanes<\/em> (1721) to the study on premises of the lives, customs and laws of different nations, ethnicities. When his friend, Earl James Waldgrave (1684-1741), was appointed as emissary, ambassador to Vienna, to the court of Emperor Charles VI, King of Hungary as Charles III, King of Bohemia as Charles II (1711\u20131740), Montesquieu accompanied i.e. escorted him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[334,335],"coauthors":[1204],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-memoirs-and-other-contributions","tag-hungary","tag-montesquieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nome.unak.is\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}