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'''Mihály Lajos Jeney''' (also known as French author: '''Louis Michel de Jeney''') - (b. [[1723]] or [[1724]] in [[Transylvania]], d. 1797 in [[Pécs]]) – [[Hungary|Hungarian]] military officer and [[general]] of [[Austro-Hungarian Army]], [[mapmaker]]. Born in [[noble]] [[protestant]] family, starts military service as [[hussar]] during 1737-1739 war against [[Turkey]], |
'''Mihály Lajos Jeney''' (also known as French author: '''Louis Michel de Jeney''') - (b. [[1723]] or [[1724]] in [[Transylvania]], d. 1797 in [[Pécs]]) – [[Hungary|Hungarian]] military officer and [[general]] of [[Austro-Hungarian Army]], [[mapmaker]]. Born in [[noble]] [[protestant]] family, starts military service as [[hussar]] during 1737-1739 war against [[Turkey]], on 1739-1754 served in [[Bercsényi]] hussar [[regiment]]. Between 1754 and 1758 served in French army near [[Rhine]] as mapmaker. During [[Seven Years' War]] 1758-1763 served in [[Prussian Army]] as [[captain]] of [[military engineer]]s. On 1787 nominated as [[major-general]] of Austro-Hungarian Army as Alt-Gradisko ([[Gradiško]] in [[Slovenia]]) fortress commander. Author of popular manual of [[tactics]]: ''The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment...'' published in [[1757]] (French edition: [[Hag]]) and English edition: [[London]] [[1760]], translated into many languages. After Seven Year’s War he provide military survey of Hungarian-Austrian Kingdom and result were 3324 sheets of cartographic maps 1:28 000 and 1:96 000. |
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== Bibliography and further reading == |
== Bibliography and further reading == |
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Revision as of 14:44, 29 July 2008
Mihály Lajos Jeney (also known as French author: Louis Michel de Jeney) - (b. 1723 or 1724 in Transylvania, d. 1797 in Pécs) – Hungarian military officer and general of Austro-Hungarian Army, mapmaker. Born in noble protestant family, starts military service as hussar during 1737-1739 war against Turkey, on 1739-1754 served in Bercsényi hussar regiment. Between 1754 and 1758 served in French army near Rhine as mapmaker. During Seven Years' War 1758-1763 served in Prussian Army as captain of military engineers. On 1787 nominated as major-general of Austro-Hungarian Army as Alt-Gradisko (Gradiško in Slovenia) fortress commander. Author of popular manual of tactics: The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment... published in 1757 (French edition: Hag) and English edition: London 1760, translated into many languages. After Seven Year’s War he provide military survey of Hungarian-Austrian Kingdom and result were 3324 sheets of cartographic maps 1:28 000 and 1:96 000.
Bibliography and further reading
- de Jeney, Louis M.: Le Partisan; ou l’art de faire la petite guerre, avec success selon la genié de nos jours. Constapel, France: Le Haye, 1757.
- de Jeney, Louis M.: The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment..."translated from the French of Mr. de Jeney, by an Officer of the Army"[Thomas Ellis]. London: 1760.
- de Jeney: Partyzant, czyli sztuka prowadzenia pomyślnie woyny podjazdowey, według zwyczaju wieku teraźnieyszego.. Supraśl: X.X. Bazylianie, 1770. (Polish edition)
- Paldus, J.: Die militärischen Aufnahmen im Bereiche der Habsburgischen Länder aus der Zeit Kaiser Joseph II. Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1918.
- de Jeney: A portyázó, avagy a kisháború sikerrel való megvívásának mestersége korunk géniusza szerint. Hága, 1759 (edi. József Zachar). Budapest: Magvető Kiadó, 1986. (Hungarian edition)
- Jankó, Annamária: An outstanding person of the 1st military survey: Mihály Lajos Jeney. Budapest: War History Institute and Museum.