Talk:Sigismund von Herberstein

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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."

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200608u/poe-interview

Lisiate 02:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * 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. --Phaedrus86 02:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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 (talk • contribs) 06:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Look at the history and you can easily see that answers.com lifted their copy from Wikipedia. Phaedrus86 07:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

South Austria?
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 slovenicus 20:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)