Andreas von Auersperg

Andreas von Auersperg, Herr von Schönberg and Seisenberg ( Slovenian Andrej Turjaški , Croatian and Bosnian Andrija Auersperg ; Андрија Ауершперг ) (born April 9, 1556 in Seisenberg in Lower Carniola , today Slovenia ; † September 5, 1593 in Karlstadt in Croatia ) was an Austrian -Slovenian military leader.

Copper engraving by Andreas von Auersperg

biography

Andreas von Auersperg came from one of Austria's leading Protestant dynasties in Carniola and was the youngest son of Wolfgang-Engelbert von Auersperg, Lord von Schönberg , Seisenberg and Flödnig († 1557) and Anna Maria von Lamberg (1514–1557). When his parents died early, the governor of Carniola Weikhard Freiherr von Auersperg (1533–1581) became his guardian.

In 1569 he moved to the University of Tübingen at the age of 13 ; Through the mediation of Primož Trubar (1508–1586), Bernhard Steiner († after 1593) was his “ preceptor ” (private tutor) there from 1569 to 1573 . Auersperg studied in Padua in 1573 and in Bologna in 1574 .

Andreas von Auersperg became a soldier and accompanied Archduke Matthias (1557–1619) to the Netherlands from 1577–1578 . In 1578 he fought in Croatia as a captain under Baron Hans Ferenberger von Auer (1511–1584) and in 1579 under Christoph von Auersperg (1550–1592) on the Illyrian border. In 1583 he was a colonel, and in 1589 he was appointed by Rudolph II (1552–1612) as the successor to Count Jobst Joseph von Thurn and Valsassina († 1589) to the war council and commanding general (Feldobrist) of the Croatian and Dalmatian (" Petrinjanischen ") Appointed border in Karlstadt.

On June 22, 1593, the troops of Ban Toma Erdődy von Eberau (1558–1624), Andres von Auersperg, Ruprecht von Eggenberg (1546–1611) and Melchior von Redern (1555–1600) struck an allegedly four times stronger Ottoman Army under the Bosnian Beylerbey Telli Hassan Pascha († 1593; born as "Niko Predojević") in the battle of Sissek on the Kupa . Pope Clement VIII (1536–1605) sent the Protestant Auersperg on July 10, 1593 a personal letter of congratulations.

According to a saying by Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644–1709) Auersperg was called the “Carnic” or “Christian Achilles (es)” and “the terror of the Turks”. He died unmarried three months after the Battle of Sissek.

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Andreas von Auersperg: Relatio Real particularitet, how and on what Weeg the youngest of the bassa in Boßen Niderlag under Sißeck for the 22 June diß 93 Jars . In: Novellae Fuggerianae , 1593; Austrian National Library Vienna (Cod. 8966, sheets 452–457) ( digitized version of the Austrian National Library Vienna, scan 911–921); further mentions between 1582 and 1593 in Cod. 8955, 8957, 8960, 8964-8966
Letter from Andreas von Auersperg to David I. Ungnad von Weißenwolff (1530–1600) of July 3, 1593. Extract . In: Novellae Fuggerianae , 1593; Austrian National Library Vienna (Cod. 8966, sheets 419-420)
Letter from Clemens VIII to Andreas von Auersperg dated July 10, 1593 from Rome. In: Peter von Radics: Herbard VIII, Freiherr zu Auersperg (1528-1575) . Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1862, p. 362f ( Google Books )

literature

Wilhelm Edler von Janko : Auersperg, Andreas Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 639.
Gustav Adolf Metnitz: Auersperg, Andreas Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 436 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Not as often stated in 1594; see. New German biography. Additions and corrections. Digital version , ed. by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, as of April 2010.
↑ From Stein near Laibach ; Matriculation Tübingen April 22, 1569: "Bernhardinus / Franciscus Stainer fratres Litropolitani", 1573–1576 pastor in St. Ruprecht near Villach in Carinthia , from 1576 landscape preacher in Klagenfurt.
^ Son of Andreas I. Ungnad von Sonnegg (1499–1557) from his second marriage to Johanna Benigna von Pernstein († 1551).

Individual evidence

^ Matriculation Tübingen June 17, 1569: "Andreas ab Awrsperge dominus in Schönberg baro".
↑ excerpts reprinted in Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst: Ruprecht von Eggenberg. An Austrian military leader of the 16th century . In: Mittheilungen des Historisches Verein für Steiermark 26 (1878), pp. 79–163, esp. Pp. 105–107 ( Google Books ; limited preview)
↑ See query in the “Wiener Fuggerzeitungen” project of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research Vienna.

personal data
SURNAME	Auersperg, Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrej Turjaški
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Slovenian military leader
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1556
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seisenberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1593
Place of death	Karlstadt

[1] Not as often stated in 1594; see. New German biography. Additions and corrections. Digital version , ed. by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, as of April 2010.

[3] From Stein near Laibach ; Matriculation Tübingen April 22, 1569: "Bernhardinus / Franciscus Stainer fratres Litropolitani", 1573–1576 pastor in St. Ruprecht near Villach in Carinthia , from 1576 landscape preacher in Klagenfurt.

[6] Son of Andreas I. Ungnad von Sonnegg (1499–1557) from his second marriage to Johanna Benigna von Pernstein († 1551).

[2] Matriculation Tübingen June 17, 1569: "Andreas ab Awrsperge dominus in Schönberg baro".

[4] xcerpts reprinted in Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst: Ruprecht von Eggenberg. An Austrian military leader of the 16th century . In: Mittheilungen des Historisches Verein für Steiermark 26 (1878), pp. 79–163, esp. Pp. 105–107 ( Google Books ; limited preview)

[5] See query in the “Wiener Fuggerzeitungen” project of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research Vienna.