User talk:Vonbuol

Hello,

Exciting to find somebody else interested in old Buol. I don't think there's ever been a modern biography published of him. In terms of English works, there's a fair amount about his policy in Paul Schroeder's somewhat old, but still useful Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War, although this focuses only on a short time period. Any book dealing with European foreign affairs or Austrian politics in the 1850s will probably contain a fair amount. But I really don't think there's that much. Certainly there's not much in English. I'd imagine there's more in German, but my German isn't terribly good. There's a German book which discusses Austria's relations with the west between the Crimean War and the Italian War of 1859, but I can't remember the title. I would have to say it's rather a shame - I don't think there's any decent biographies of any of the post-Metternich Austrian foreign ministers (although there are of course decent monographs of their policy in particular crises, and such like). john k 00:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)