The new English-language volume of the WOMEnKULT series is expected in the winter of 2025 The volume will be published by Praesens Verlag in Vienna
György KURUCZ: Travel Narratives and Economic Discourse: The Technological Journey of Two Hungarian Agriculturists in Western Europe in the Early Nineteenth Century
Count László Festetics, the heir of Count György Festetics, who founded Hungary’s first agricultural college, the Georgikon of Keszthely in 1797, sent two young teachers on a study tour to Western Europe in 1820. Based on the reports, letters and journals of Pál Gerics, doctor and veterinarian, and József Lehrmann, gardener and viticulturist, György Kurucz, professor at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University of the Reformed Church in Hungray, publishes his book after years of research. The chapters of this work not only introduce the reader to the intellectual background and international relations of the founding and operation of the agricultural institute, but also follow the sometimes adventurous journey of the two teachers through Silesia, Saxony, Prussia, the Kingdom of Hanover, the towns of northern Germany, the Rhine region, and then through the Low Countries, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland and Italy. This volume will certainly appeal to readers interested in farming, medicine, European cultural history in general, and even in everyday life of bygone eras.