Theodor von Sosnosky

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Theodor von Sosnosky (born January 4, 1866 in Budapest , † February 3 or December 13, 1943 in Vienna ) (pseudonym: Pierre de Straß) was an Austrian writer and historian .

Live and act

Sosnosky came from the Polish nobility. In the last decade of the 19th century he settled in Vienna, where he initially published mainly fiction and Germanistic works. At the turn of the century he began to deal with historical issues. Politically he was close to the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand . In addition to his portrayal of Austrian politics in the Balkans since 1866, Sosnosky's biography of the Archduke, published in 1929 and one of the first descriptions of the life of the heir to the throne, is probably his best-known work. The latter was nonetheless criticized as “a script that was as little thorough as it was apologetic”.

Sosnosky, who was an ardent supporter of the Greater Austrian idea and an opponent of Georg Ritter von Schönerer and his efforts to join the German Reich, was anti-Semitic by criticizing the “huge Jewish influence in Hungary” in the pre-war period.

After the end of the Second World War, his writing became The Red Trinity. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Jacobins and Bolsheviks (1931) placed on the list of literature to be retired in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Fonts

Fiction works :

  • Poet stick horses. imitations , 1890.
  • The German poetry of the 19th century. A poetic review , 1901.
  • Exotic butterfly splendor. 50 exotic butterflies in their original colors , 1914.
  • Wiener Luft , 1919. (novel)
  • Downward , 1920 (novel)

Germanistic and linguistic writings :

  • Sins of language. A harvest of flowers from modern German narrative literature , 1890.
  • The language attendant. Language rules and language sins as contributions to the German , 1894.

Historical and political writings :

  • England's Danger. The future of British Army Reform .
  • Politics in the Habsburg Empire. Marginal glosses on contemporary history , 1912.
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand, our heir to the throne. On his 50th birthday , 1913 (together with Leopold von Chlumecky)
  • Austria-Hungary's Balkan policy since 1866. With 2 maps and an appendix , 2 volumes, 1913/1914.
  • The Dream of the Triple Alliance , 1915.
  • Italy's Balkan Policy , 1915.
  • Irredenta policy The German War , 1915.
  • The Dream of the Triple Alliance Pamphlets for Austria-Hungary's Awakening , 1915.
  • Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke heir to the throne. A picture of life , 1929.
  • The red trinity. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity , 1931.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian State Archives: Communications of the Austrian State Archives , 1972, p. 481.
  2. ↑ Gotthart Wunberg: Austrian literary and art criticism, 1887-1902 , 1976, p. 1250.
  3. ^ Karl Ziegler: The acceptance of the works of Emile Zola by the Austrian literary criticism of the turn of the century , 1986, p. 171.
  4. ↑ Viktor Bibl: Heir to the Throne , 1929, p. 248.
  5. ^ Robert William Seton-Watson: A History of the Czechs and Slovaks , 1943, p. 227.
  6. ^ Franz Hieronymus Riedl: Hungary, the land of the Stephanskrone , 1936, p. 72.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-s.html
personal data
SURNAME Sosnosky, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pierre de Strass
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1943
Place of death Vienna