Caspar Ludwig Momartz

Caspar Ludwig Momartz (born June 19, 1696 in Constantinople ; † November 10, 1761 ibid) was an Austrian - Levantine diplomat and writer .

Life

His father was from Flanders and his mother was Italian from Galata . Momartz had been an interpreter ( dragoman ) in the service of the Austrian embassy in Constantinople since 1719 at the latest . In 1739 he was instrumental in the conclusion of the Peace of Belgrade . As secretary of the legation (since 1745) he undertook two legation trips to Tunis in 1747 and 1748/1749 .

Momartz is the author of an allegorical poem in modern Greek , the Bosporomachia , in which the sisters Asia and Europe argue over which of the two belongs to the more beautiful bank of the Bosporus . The work from 1752 was published in 1766 by Eugenios Voulgaris in the Breitkopf publishing house in Leipzig . The work contains lyrical passages, descriptions of nature and information about the Christian minorities living in Constantinople in the 18th century.

Works

• Βοσπορομαχία, ἤγουν φιλονεικία Ἀσίας καὶ Εὐρώπης εἰς τὸ κατάστενον τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως. Ποίημα συντεθὲν κατὰ τὸ'αψνβ' σωτήριον ἔτος ὑπὸ τοῦ ποτὲ ἐνδοξοτάτου καὶ ἀξιοπρεπεστάτου κυρίου σένιορ Μόμαρς, πρώτου δραγουμάνου τοῦ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει πρέσβεως τοῦ Αὐστριακοῦ κράτους. Breitkopf, Leipzig 1766.

literature

• Albrecht Berger: The Bosporomachia of the Senior Momars. In: Lars M. Hoffmann (Ed.): Between Polis, Province and Periphery. Contributions to Byzantine history and culture (= Mainz publications on Byzantine studies. Volume 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 749-776.
• Marie de Testa, Antoine Gautier: Drogmans et diplomates européens auprès de la Porte ottomane. éditions ISIS, Istanbul 2003, p. 70, 144, 384.