ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |93 pages
Introduction
chapter |5 pages
Chapter One
chapter |3 pages
Chapter Two
chapter |3 pages
Chapter Three
chapter |2 pages
Chapter Four
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Five
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Six
chapter |2 pages
Chapter Seven
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Eight
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Nine
chapter |5 pages
Chapter Ten
chapter |2 pages
Chapter Eleven
chapter |5 pages
Chapter Twelve
chapter |3 pages
Chapter Thirteen
chapter |7 pages
Chapter Fourteen
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Fifteen
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Sixteen
chapter |3 pages
Chapter Seventeen
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Eighteen
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Nineteen
chapter |2 pages
Chapeter Twenty
chapter |3 pages
Chapter Twenty-One
part |118 pages
The Autobiography of Count Miklós Bethlen
chapter |3 pages
Chapter One
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Two
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Three
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Four
chapter |7 pages
Chapter Five
chapter |5 pages
Chapter Six
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Seven
chapter |7 pages
Chapter Eight
chapter |5 pages
Chapter Nine
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Ten
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Eleven
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Twelve
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Thirteen
chapter |5 pages
Chapter Fourteen
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Fifteen
chapter |7 pages
Chapter Sixteen
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Seventeen
chapter |6 pages
Chapter Eighteen
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Nineteen
chapter |4 pages
Chapter Twenty
part |307 pages
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