crown prince rudolf hunting in egypt

Egypt&Austria IX conference at Betliar (Slovakia)

21st to 24th October 2013

Helmut SatzingerUniversität Wien

(Crown Prince Rudolf Hunting in Egypt)

Rudolf (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889), Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, was the son and heir-apparent of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his wife and Empress-Queen consort, Elisabeth. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines.

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Rudolf (21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889), Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, was the son and heir-apparent of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his wife and Empress-Queen consort, Elisabeth. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines.

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Influenced by his tutor , the geologistFerdinand von Hochstetter (born 1829 in Esslingen / Neckar; died 1884 in Wien) --who later became the first superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum--, Rudolf became very interested in natural sciences, starting a mineral collection at a very early age.

He made numerous trips, first in Europe and later also in other continents, on which he repeatedly wrote reports - under his own name or anonymously. Furthermore, he suggested an encyclopedia Austria-Hungary, the so-called Kronprinzenwerk, and wrote on it himself.

In addition, Crown Prince Rudolf was a renowned ornithologist.

Kronprinzenwerk :Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild

Vienna, 1883. 24 volumes.

Wien und Niederösterreich, 1. Abth: Wien, 1886

Übersichtsband, 1. Abth: Naturgesch. Theil, 1887Übersichtsband, 2. Abth.:

Geschichtlicher Theil, 1887Wien und Niederösterreich, 2. Abth.: Niederösterreich, 1888Ungarn, Band 1, 1888Oberösterreich und Salzburg, 1889Steiermark, 1890Kärnten und Krain, 1891Ungarn, Band 2, 1891Ungarn, Band 3, 1893Tirol und Vorarlberg, 1893

Das Küstenland (Görz, Gradiska, Triest und Istrien), 1891Dalmatien, 1892Böhmen, Band 1, 1896Böhmen, Band 2, 1896Ungarn, Band 4, 1896Mähren und Schlesien, 1897Ungarn, Band 5, 1. Abtheilung, 1898Galicien, 1898Bukowina, 1899Ungarn, Band 5, 2. Abtheilung, 1900Bosnien und Hercegowina, 1901Ungarn, Band 6, 1902Croatien und Slavonien, 1902

Kronprinzenwerk :Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild

Vienna, 1883. 24 volumes

Eine Orientreise vom Jahre 1881.

Eine Orientreise vom Jahre 1881.

The Party

The uncle, Archduke Karl Salvator, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1839-1892)

Count Waldburg, general

Abbot Laurenz Mayer, court priest

Major von Eschenbacher

Count Josef Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Real Secret Councellor and Chamberlain of His Majesty (1839-1899)

Franz von Pausinger, painter (1839-1915)

(Anna Selander, „Kronprinz Rudolfs Begegnung mit der Wissenschaft auf seiner Ägyptenreise“, in: J. Holaubek/H. Navrátilová/W. B. Oerter (Hg.) Egypt and Austria III: The Danube Monarchy and the Orient. Proceedings of the Prague Symposium 2006, Prag 2007, 219-230; quoting Kronprinz Rudolf, Majestät, ich warne Sie ...: Geheime und private Schriften. Hg. Brigitte Hamann. 1998, 312.)

(Anna Selander, „Kronprinz Rudolfs Begegnung mit der Wissenschaft auf seiner Ägyptenreise“, in: J. Holaubek/H. Navrátilová/W. B. Oerter (Hg.) Egypt and Austria III: The Danube Monarchy and the Orient. Proceedings of the Prague Symposium 2006, Prag 2007, 219-230; quoting Kronprinz Rudolf, Majestät, ich warne Sie ...: Geheime und private Schriften. Hg. Brigitte Hamann. 1998, 312.)

(Anna Selander, „Kronprinz Rudolfs Begegnung mit der Wissenschaft auf seiner Ägyptenreise“, in: J. Holaubek/H. Navrátilová/W. B. Oerter (Hg.) Egypt and Austria III: The Danube Monarchy and the Orient. Proceedings of the Prague Symposium 2006, Prag 2007, 219-230; quoting Kronprinz Rudolf, Majestät, ich warne Sie ...: Geheime und private Schriften. Hg. Brigitte Hamann. 1998, 312.)

(Anna Selander, „Kronprinz Rudolfs Begegnung mit der Wissenschaft auf seiner Ägyptenreise“, in: J. Holaubek/H. Navrátilová/W. B. Oerter (Hg.) Egypt and Austria III: The Danube Monarchy and the Orient. Proceedings of the Prague Symposium 2006, Prag 2007, 219-230; quoting Kronprinz Rudolf, Majestät, ich warne Sie ...: Geheime und private Schriften. Hg. Brigitte Hamann. 1998, 312.)

For when his wedding with Princess Stephanie of Belgium in 1880 was delayed, the young crown prince was sent on a journey to Egypt and Palestine. According to the emperor’s wish it was to be, above all, a journey of hunting. Furthermore, the crown princes catholic belief should be strengthened—this is why they did not only send notoriously good hunters like the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but also the court vicarLaurenz Mayer as companions. Shortly before, major frictions had arisen at the court through Rudolf’s close friendship with the zoologist Alfred Brehm, notorious as a “free mason.”

For when his wedding with Princess Stephanie of Belgium in 1880 was delayed, the young crown prince was sent on a journey to Egypt and Palestine. According to the emperor’s wish it was to be, above all, a journey of hunting. Furthermore, the crown princes catholic belief should be strengthened—this is why they did not only send notoriously good hunters like the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but also the court vicarLaurenz Mayer as companions. Shortly before, major frictions had arisen at the court through Rudolf’s close friendship with the zoologist Alfred Brehm, notorious as a “free mason.”

For when his wedding with Princess Stephanie of Belgium in 1880 was delayed, the young crown prince was sent on a journey to Egypt and Palestine. According to the emperor’s wish it was to be, above all, a journey of hunting. Furthermore, the crown princes catholic belief should be strengthened—this is why they did not only send notoriously good hunters like the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but also the court vicar Laurenz Mayer as companions. Shortly before, major frictions had arisen at the court through Rudolf’s close friendship with the zoologist Alfred Brehm, notorious as a “free mason.”

Alfred Edmund Brehm (*1829, † 1884)

The uncle, Archduke Karl Salvator , Grand Duke of Tuscany

born 1839 in Florenz; died 1892 in Vienna

Military man, greatly interested in weapon technology and construction. A passionate hunter, had a large collection of weapons.

Rudolf: born 1858

Count Josef Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, Real Secret Councellor and Chamberlain of His Majestyborn 1839 , died 1899

Was a hunting companion of the Crown Prince and an important witness of the Mayerling tragedy. In the morning of Jan. 30 he, together with Prince Coburg and the valet Loschek, discovered the two dead. Count Hoyos delivered the news to the emperor. To dispel the suspicion that he had known of the relationship between Rudolf and Mary, he left a memorandum on the Mayerling tragedy.

Franz Xaver von Pausinger, born Frankenburg (Upper Austria), 1839 , died Frankenburg, 1915

Painter of animals and landscapes, illustrator. As a draughtsman accompanied crown prince Rudolf 1881 on a journey to the Orient and then worked as painter of animals and illustrator in Vienna, Munich and Salzburg.

Franz Xaver von Pausinger

Februar 9, 1881 Departure from Vienna by train to Trieste,

Miramar Castle, Miramar harbour

Departure by boat Miramar to Alexandria

Februar 18 Arrival in Alexandria. 4 days in Cairo

“Abouksar” (recte ابو كساء Abouksâ( :hunting in Fayyoumprovince

“( ”Siutrecte اسيوط Asyûṭ(; steamer toAswân.Philae island ;

,Return to Cairo via AsyûṭMemphis ,Saqqâra

..…Damiette, Port Sa‘îd etc

Jaffa, Jerusalem ,Tanturhunting ;hyenas Betlehem

…Nazareth

Return via Korfu Dubrovnik, Trieste, Vienna (April 22(

Februar 9, 1881 Departure from Vienna by train to Trieste,

Miramar Castle, Miramar harbour

Departure by boat Miramar to Alexandria

Februar 18 Arrival in Alexandria. 4 days in Cairo

“Abouksar” (recte ابو كساء Abouksâ): hunting in Fayyoum province

“Siut” (recte اسيوط Asyûṭ(; steamer to Aswân; Philae island.

Return to Cairo via Asyûṭ, Memphis, Saqqâra

Damiette, Port Sa‘îd etc…..

Jaffa, Jerusalem Tantur, hunting hyenas; Betlehem

… Nazareth

Return via Korfu Dubrovnik, Trieste, Vienna (April 22(

“No sooner had our caravan been composed, as hunting began. In the garden beside the factory we found the conspicuous African blue-cheeked bee-eater (Blauwangenspinte(, a lovely green bird with a long tail and blue cheek stripes; a whole row of them was successfully shot at. These animals belong to the interior of Africa, they are frequent in Upper Egypt, though they never get as far as Cairo, a region that appears to them already too far to the north. On the fields, spur-winged lapwings (Spornkiebitze( were running, these lovely, typically Egyptian birds, then troops of cattle egrets (Kuhreiher(; also here, like everywhere in Africa, a rich animal-life is concentrated in astonishing quantities in the stretches with plenty of vegetation and water...” (p. 58(.

Mammals

Birds

HyenaWolfAfrican jackalBig Asiatic jackalSmall Asiatic jackalFenek (desert fox)Desert lynxIchneumon (mongooz)Desert hareSyrian hareJumping mouseCommon vampire batGazelleWild boar (Becker)Wild sow

Coccystes GlaudariusPied KingfisherBlue-cheeked Bee-eater Cypselus PallidusCypselus ParvusFalco BarbarusFalco CenchrisSparrow HawkSteppe EagleBooted EagleOsprey, Sea HawkBlack-winged Kite Black Kite Black Kite Pallid HarrierMarsh Harrier

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria(18 December 1863 Graz  – 28 June 1914 Sarajevo)

Franz Ferdinand had a fondness for trophy hunting that was excessive even by the standards of European nobility of this time. In his diaries he kept track of an estimated 300,000 game kills, 5,000 of which were deer. Approximately 100,000 trophies were on exhibit at hisBohemian castle at Konopiště which he also stuffed with various antiquities, his other great passion. Wikipedia

Mit seinem Cousin Rudolf [1858-1889], dem Kronprinzen des Kaisers, war er eng befreundet.

„Der erste Elefant“ – Franz Ferdinand vor einem erlegten Elefanten, während seiner Weltreise 1893 in Kalawewa, Ceylon

Konopiště (… ) is a four-winged three storey château located in the Czech Republic, about 50 km (30 mi) southeast of Prague, outside the city of Benešov. It has become famous as the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria…

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Konopiště Castle

Approximately 100,000 trophies were on exhibit at his Bohemian castle at Konopiště

Schloss Blühnbach near Werfen, Salzburg province

Schloss Blühnbach near Werfen, Salzburg province

1907

Carl Georg Schillings (1865 bis 1921) war ein deutscher Fotograf, Jäger und Tierschützer

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