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First published in 2005. The Bethlen family was an ancient noble house of considerable wealth and influence in Transylvania. The writer of this autobiography Count Miklos (born 1642) was a General in 1682, Privy Councillor in 1689, Foispan in 1690 and Chancellor in 1691, after an excellent education and distinguished career in public life. He then clashed with General Rabutin, from 1696 the Austrian Commander in chief in Transylvania, which led to his arrest and imprisonment on a charge of treason in 1703. His autobiography, one of the most extensive of the literary memoirs that came from Transylvania at the period (among them the Letters from Turkey of Kelemen Mikes and Metamorphosis Transylvaniae of Peter Apor, both published by Kegan Paul in Bernard Adam's English translation), was written in prison and under sentence of death in Hungary and Austria. Transferred to Viennese confinement in 1708 and pardoned by Emperor Charles III in 1712, Bethlen was never allowed to return to Transylvania, spent his last years in relative freedom in Vienna, and died in 1716.
Contents
Introduction; Introduction_1; Introduction_2; Introduction_3; Introduction_4; Introduction_5; Introduction_6; Introduction_7; Introduction_8; Introduction_9; Introduction_10; Introduction_11; Introduction_12; Introduction_13; Introduction_14; Introduction_15; Introduction_16; Introduction_17; Introduction_18; Introduction_19; Introduction_20 Chapeter Twenty; Introduction_21; Chapter 1 The Autobiography of Count Miklós Bethlen; book1_1; book1_2; book1_3; book1_4; Chapter 1_5; Chapter 1_6; Chapter 1_7; Chapter 1_8; Chapter 1_9; Chapter 1_10; Chapter 1_11; Chapter 1_12; Chapter 1_13; Chapter 1_14; Chapter 1_15; Chapter 1_16; Chapter 1_17; Chapter 1_18; Chapter 1_19; Chapter 1_20; Chapter 2; Chapter 2_2; Chapter 2_3; Chapter 2_4; Chapter 2_5; Chapter 2_6; Chapter 2_7; Chapter 2_8; Chapter 2_9; Chapter 2_10; Chapter 2_11; Chapter 2_12; Chapter 2_13; Chapter 2_14; Chapter 2_15; Chapter 2_16; Chapter 2_17; Chapter 2_18; Chapter 2_19; Chapter 2_20; Chapter 2_21; Chapter 2_22; Chapter 2_23; Chapter 2_24; Chapter 2_25; Chapter 2_26 -six; Chapter 2_27 -seven; Chapter 2_28;
