Asboth Janos: An Official Tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina

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An Official Tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina

Asboth Janos

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János de Asbóth: An Official Tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina. With an Account of the History, Antiquities, Agrarian Conditions, Religion, Ethnology, Folk Lore, and Social Life of the People

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First edition in English (Authorized English Edition). Original German edition cf. no. 267. Contents and list of literature at the beginning of the book, after the preface (Author's Preface). Alphabetical index at the end of the book. Illustrated, cf. no. 267. Unlike the German edition, this edition does not have statistical tables and contains only one map - Bosnia and Herzegovina with historical data - on a multiple folded sheet. Contains sheet music. Dedication on label on inside front cover. R. Ivan Richardson Out-of-Print Literature label on sheet before cover. [The author accompanied the Minister of Finance Benjamin Kállay, who was entrusted with the management of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for four full years. So he traveled to a lot of Balkan countries, and it was on Kállay's initiative that he started writing down the details of their travels, in order to get to know Bosnia and Herzegovina better.]

János de Asbóth (Victor Vlad Delamarina, 7 June 1845 - Vidiná, 28 June 1911) - Hungarian writer, journalist, ethnographer and politician. The son of the high-ranking Austro-Hungarian official Lájos Asbóth, a colonel by rank, later commander of the Austro-Hungarian secret police. He finished high school in Bratislava, studied in Pest and Zurich. Served in several Hungarian ministries. He spent several years abroad - in Paris, Egypt and Algeria - and on several occasions he also stayed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he accompanied Benjamin Kállay on his many trips. In 1887, he became a member of parliament as a member of the Liberal Party. In 1892, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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