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This article was mentioned by Marshall Poe in his discussion of Wikipedia in the August 2006 edition of The Atlantic Monthly:
"It was in an entry on Sigismund Freiherr von Herberstein. He was an Austrian diplomat in the sixteenth century, and he was one of the first Western Europeans to travel to what is now Russia. He wrote a book about it, and I wrote a book about him, as well as about other people who went to Russia at that time. The entry popped up on my computer screen, and when I saw my work cited there, I wondered, “Good God, who did this? What kind of a lunatic would actually spend time creating an entry on Sigismund Freiherr von Herberstein, the most obscure dude on earth?” I know about him, and about ten other people do. I was just fascinated by that. I’m drawn to weird things like that."
Thanks for posting that. I am the "lunatic" he refers to - I started the article under my real name back in my first Wikipedia incarnation. I got in touch with him, and I hope to be able to replace the dead links to his articles soon.
The trigger for the article was the question of whether tsar should be spelt "czar" or "tsar". Have a look at
Talk:Tsar and you can see my post where I looked up czar in the OED, which refers to Herberstein. Funny where Wikipedia investigations end up. --
Phaedrus8602:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)reply
The first portion of this article is a complete lift from www.answers.com. Word for Word. It needs either citation or rewriting. —The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
Lenin333 (
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contribs) 06:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
15th Century Carniola cannot be defined as "Southern Austria". In fact, the term "Austria" was restricted only to the present-day provinces of Upper and Lower Austria. Only in 1564, when the emperor Ferdinand I. divided his share of the Habsburg lands among his three children, did the term "Austria" spread south (as Carniola, Styria, Carinthia and Gorizia were renamed "Inner Austria").
Viator slovenicus20:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Sources
Would anyone be able to add sources to this article? There are some hints above, but I'm not entirely sure where the information in the article is from in the first place (including the birth and death dates). The first draft is
here (back in 2002) and the contributor left in April of that year with
this comment, though from the above he came back as
User:Phaedrus86, who stopped contributing in 2007. There are versions on other language Wikipedias. The birth and death dates were added by an unregistered editor
in 2004.
Carcharoth (
talk)
12:51, 3 September 2011 (UTC)reply