Summary
Johann Asboth: Bosnien und Herzegovina I.
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First edition. Table of contents and list of illustrations at the beginning of the book, after the preface (Vorwort). Illustrated - 37 full-page illustrations and 175 illustrations in the text. Some notes below the text. At the end of the book there is a list of literature, statistical tables (13 tables, some of them on multiple folded sheets) and maps (in color) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (one historical map on a folded sheet and three thematic maps). Contains sheet music. For four full years, the author accompanied the Minister of Finance Benjamin Kállay, who was entrusted with the management of Bosnia and Herzegovina. So he traveled 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.
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Asboth, Janos de
János de Asbóth (Victor Vlad Delamarina, 7/6/1845 - Vidiná, 28/6/1911) - 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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