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The unknown confessor to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711-40) - Georg Tonneman, S.J. from Westphalia, Germany, arrived in Vienna in 1694, and speedily became known at the Habsburg court, for his legal expertise. By 1701, he was appointed a tutor to Joseph von Lothringen. In 1705 he left Vienna for Barcelona, as the new Confessor to the Archduke Charles, claimant to the Spanish crown. For the remainder of his long life, he would be at Charles' side, accompanying him back to Austria in 1711, when Charles unexpectedly assumed the mantle of the Empire. Both men died in 1740. Charles was succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresia (1740-80). His granddaughter was Marie-Antoinette of France. This is a compilation from published, and unpublished, sources - including original correspondence. The portrait on the front cover was painted in 1738, to commemorate the confessor's Golden Jubilee as a priest. The portrait-medallion is of Charles VI. The artist is unknown. The compiler read Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. She has also published Educated Circles and Their Mode of Reasoning: Lux Mundi - Essay VIII (1889).Professor T. H. Huxley versus Bishop Charles Gore.

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Author:   Helena Fyfe Thonemann
Publisher:   Thonemann (H F)
Imprint:   Thonemann (H F)
Edition:   Enhanced
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9780953940523

ISBN 10:   0953940527
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   31 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, xiv; Introduction: (a) The Holy Roman Empire, 1; (b) V.G. Tonneman S.J. and the Emperor Charles VI, 5; Part I; Vitus Georgius Tonneman S.J.: A Eulogy from the National Library, Vienna, Austria. Anon. 1740. Translated from the Latin. (Annuae Litterae Societatis Jesu), 13; Part II; Historical Notes to the Eulogy: Persons and events mentioned above; (from later published sources: also correspondence from the Vatican Archives, Rome, and the National Archives, London), 27; Part III; Samples of P. Tonneman's correspondence from the Erzbischofliche Akademische Bibliothek, Germany. (Letters to the Paderborn Jesuit College, 1714-1739), 59; Part IV; Illustrations, 87; Appendix: Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (1718). (Vienna to England), 103; Map of Europe 1800, 109; Chronology of the Empire, 110; Elizabeth of Brunswick, 111; The confessor's gift to his parish church, Hoxter, Westphalia, 112; Bibliography, 113; Index, 116.

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Confessor to the Last of the Habsburgs is a... study of an almost forgotten figure in some of the most dramatic years of Habsburg history. Georg Tonneman.S.J. was confessor to Emperor Charles VI throughout his reign, (1711-40). This detailed and attractively illustrated gem of a study includes 17 pages of translations of extracts from Tonneman's letters held in the Jesuit college at Paderborn, and a well-researched, annotated, translation of a valuable eulogy written anonymously in 1740. The book should stimulate researchers eager to delve further into the hidden depths of eighteenth-century Austrian history. --Alan Warwick Palmer. Author of 'The Twilight of the Habsburgs -The life and times of the Emperor Francis Joseph'- London and New York: 1994. Your book is of valuable historical interest to our society. Bernard Hall (Society of Jesus)

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The compiler was educated at The London School of Economics London University. The confessor was an ancestor hence her access to German family records. The research is freelance.

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