Bartholomew of Testa

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Baron Bartholomäus von Testa (born September 23, 1723 in Constantinople , † March 20, 1809 in Constantinople) was an Austrian interpreter and diplomat .

Life

Origin and family

Family coat of arms , from: Tyroff: Book of Arms of the Austrian Monarchy , 1831–1868

Bartholomäus (also Bartholomeo) belonged to the Testa family , who originally came from Genoa and can be traced back to Constantinople before 1463 , whose members from the 17th to the 19th centuries provided dragomaniacs and envoys at the Sublime Porte for a number of European princes . His parents were Gaspard Testa (1684–1758) and Maria (1690–1764) born. de Negri.

On January 18, 1761 he married Thérèse (1743–1798) b. Fonton, daughter of the First Dragoman at the French Embassy. Of the children resulting from this marriage, the following have reached adulthood:

  • Heinrich von Testa (1763–1789), November 22, 1787 ∞ Catherine b. Matatrelli
  • Johann Anton von Testa (1768–1839), January 15, 1797 ∞ Lucrece b. Beneveni, April 27, 1813 ∞ Lucia Maria Magdalena b. de Chirico
  • Elisabeth von Testa (1769–1846), November 26, 1786 ∞ Ignaz von Stürmer (1752–1829)
  • Gaspard of Testa (1777–1814), June 23, 1805 ∞ Philippine (1775–1855) b. from Lütgendorff-Leinburg

Career

Bartholomäus Testa was in the foreign service of the Habsburg Monarchy for more than 60 years from 1740 to 1802 and was the first of his family to work in the Ottoman Empire in Austrian services: until 1747 as an interpreter ( dragoman ), among other things at peace negotiations in Algiers , the Aachener Peace of October 8, 1748 led. Promoted to first interpreter from 1777, he was appointed court counselor in 1782 , and in 1783 to the rank of knight, and in 1803 to the status of Austrian baron . From 1791 in the rank of business agent, Testa also served as head of the embassy chancellery and repeatedly as head of mission from 1791 to 1792 and 1802 . In 1802, Testa was released into retirement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Agstner : Austria in Istanbul: K. (below) K. Presence in the Ottoman Empire , LIT, Münster 2010, p. 23 ff. ISBN 3-643-502-303
  2. ^ Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld : Austrian nobility lexicon of the eighteenth u. nineteenth century , vol. 1, Mörschner & Jasper, Vienna 1822, p. 89 u. 148
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Vol. 1, Weigel, Leipzig 1855, p. 411
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon , Vol. 9, Voigt, Weimar 1870, p. 167 f.
  5. ↑ Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (Hungary) 1720–1920 , Böhlau, Vienna 1986, p. 109, ISBN 3-205-07269-3
  6. ^ Marie de Testa, Antoine Gautier: Drogmans et diplomates européens auprès de la porte ottomane , Isis, Istanbul 2003, ISBN 9-754-282-587
predecessor Office successor

Peter von Herbert-Rathkeal (until 1788)
Peter von Herbert-Rathkeal 		Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in the Ottoman Empire
16. Sep. 1791 to Feb. 20, 1792 Feb.
20, 1802 to Jun. 28, 1802
Peter von Herbert-Rathkeal
Ignaz von Stürmer
personal data
SURNAME Testa, Bartholomew of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian interpreter and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1809
Place of death Constantinople