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Casa de Esterházy. Vista frontal del palacio Esterházy en Eisenstadt, Austria. La casa de los Esterházy, llamado simplemente como Eszterházy, ha sido una familia magiar de nobleza en Hungría desde la Edad Media. Desde el siglo XVII, se convirtieron en parte de los más grandes magnates terratenientes de los territorios del Reino de ...
Marie Charles Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 de diciembre de 1847-21 de mayo de 1923) fue un militar francés de origen húngaro, involucrado en el Caso Dreyfus como uno de sus más importantes actores. Fue el responsable de las actividades de espionaje a favor de Alemania por las que se acusó injustamente al oficial Alfred Dreyfus.
- 21 de mayo de 1923, 75 años, Reino Unido
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Ferdinand Walsin Esterházy. (Austria, 1847 - Harpenden, 1923) Militar francés, verdadero culpable de los cargos de espionaje que injustamente se imputaron al capitán Alfred Dreyfus en el célebre «Affaire Dreyfus». Ferdinand Walsin Esterházy. Descendiente de la familia Esterhazy, Ferdinand Walsin Esterházy sirvió en la legión ...
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The Esterházys arose among the minor nobility of the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary (today's southwest Slovakia), originally a branch of the Salamon clan (de genere Salamon) by the name Zerházi (de Zerhásház / de Zyrház / de Zyrhas). Their first known ancestor was Mokud (Mocud) from the Salamon clan, who was a military serviceman and lando...
The family derived its name from the settlement Esterháza, Kingdom of Hungary. The settlement no longer exists, and is not to be confused with the later castle of the same name which they inhabited since the Middle Ages. Since 1421 they have been the owners of a property in Galánta. The most important seat of the Esterházys was Kismarton (today Eis...
The main line of the Esterházy family was generally bilingual, in Hungarian (as a result of their ethnicity) and German (as they were aristocrats of the Austrian Empire). Esterházys living in parts of the Kingdom of Hungary where other languages were spoken by the population also spoke those languages, especially Slavic languages in Slavicareas.Som...
The first prominent member of the family was Ferenc Zerházy (1563–1594), who was elevated to the title of baron of Galántha (an estate his family had held since 1421) and took the name Esterházy. Family history since this time is described according to three lines of descent, each originating in one of Ferenc's sons: the Fraknó (or Forchtenstein) l...
While the family's Hungarian residences and estates were lost in 1945, the Austrian and German properties still remain in the family. The widow of Prince Paul, Melinda Esterházy, created several foundations to preserve the cultural and historic heritage of the family. 1. Forchtenstein Castle, Austria (owned by the family: 1622–present) 2. PápaCastl...
Herman Melville references the family's wealth in Chapter 29 of Mardi(1849): "But as sailors are mostly foundlings and castaways, and carry all their kith and kin in their arms and their legs, there hardly ever appears any heir-at-law to claim their estate; seldom worth inheriting, like Esterhazy's." Avram Davidson's Doctor Eszterhazy stories are s...
Sources 1. Esterházy Privatstiftung (2012) "Highlights of Esterházy Palace: Visitor's guide to the exhibition," prepared by Florian T. Beyer, Margit Kopp, and other scholarly staff of the Esterházy Privatstiftung. Eisenstadt: Esterházy Privatstiftung. 2nd edition. 2. Landon, H. C. Robbins and David Wyn Jones (1988) Haydn: His Life and Music. Thames...
Also spelled: Eszterházy. Esterházy Family, aristocratic Magyar family that produced numerous Hungarian diplomats, army officers, and patrons of the arts. By the 18th century the Esterházys had become the largest landowners in Hungary, and they came to possess a private fortune even larger than that of the Habsburg emperors whose supporters ...
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La casa de los Esterházy, llamado simplemente como Eszterházy, ha sido una familia magiar de nobleza en Hungría desde la Edad Media. Desde el siglo XVII, se convirtieron en parte de los más grandes magnates terratenientes de los territorios del Reino de Hungría que se hallaban en manos de los germanos. Hungría se dividió en tres partes: la occidental bajo control germánico, una central ...
El príncipe Nikolaus Esterhazy, constructor de Esterháza. Haydn en Eszterháza. Desde 1766 hasta 1790, la finca fue el hogar del célebre compositor Joseph Haydn, quien vivió en un piso de cuatro habitaciones en un gran edificio de dos plantas que constituía la residencia de los sirvientes, separada del palacio. [3]
