Image of the Slavs inhabiting the Habsburg Monarchy in Voyage en Autriche by Marcel de Serres

• Authors: Wojciech Sajkowski

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on the depiction of the Slavs in a work by a French naturalist Marcel de Serres, published in 1814 and entitled Voyage en Autriche. This work is an example of the analysis including a very detailed reflection on Slavdom, made in time of the increasing political engagement of Napoleonic France in Southeastern and Central Europe. The author of the work deliberated on the character of the Slavs and their presumed national unity, simultaneously searching for the ways to explain very apparent differences between various Slavic populations. According to Marcel de Serres the Slavs of the Habsburg Monarchy formed two geographical branches (western and oriental) and were divided into seven principal races, and twenty-seven “secondary branches”. Voyage en Autriche depicted regularities, which were supposed to characterize all of the Slavs, but Marcel de Serres devoted much attention to some details which were considered as exotic and later were described by the writers of the Romantic period fascinated with the Slavic culture.

Keywords

EN

Slavdom; Napoleonic era; Habsburg Monarchy; stereotypes

PL

Słowiańszczyzna; epoka napoleońska; monarchia habsburska; stereotypy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 4 (31)
• Pages: 50-67

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Wojciech Sajkowski

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/hso210403

Biblioteka Nauki

1916819