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Aristocrats As Enlightened Fathers: The Paternal Authority of the Bohemian Count Franz Joseph Kinsky (1739-1805) and the Croatian Count Ivan VIII Nepomuk Drašković (1740-1787) (1739-1805) and the Croatian Count Ivan Nepomuk Drašković (1740-1787)

The author analyses and compares the “fatherly” discourse mainly stemming from the correspondence of two counts: the Bohemian Count Franz Joseph Kinsky (1739-1805) and the Croatian Count Ivan Nepomuk Drašković (1740- 1787). The analysis is based on the letters of parents and cadets directed to Count Kinsky as head of the Theresian Military Academy in the 1780s from the War Archive in Vienna and the correspondence between Count Drašković and his son Janko during the studies at the University of Vienna between 1785 and 1787, which is preserved at the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb. These sources will be accompanied by Kinsky’s educational treatises, memoirs and contemporary biographical descriptions. Both cases, showing the examples of public and private education, argue about the enlightened origins of both counts’ paternal authority towards their real and “adopted” sons.

aristocracy, fatherhood, eighteenth century

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