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Informationen zum Autor Julia Gasper got her doctorate in English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford. Her first book, The Dragon and the Dove: The Plays of Thomas Dekker, was published by Oxford University Press in the Oxford English Monographs series (1990). She is the translator and editor of the Modern Philosopher and Other Works by Elizabeth Craven (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017), a collection of three texts including Letters to Her Son. Her other recent books include Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man Behind the Legend (University of Delaware Press USA, 2012) and The Marquis d'Argens: A Philosophical Life (Lexington Books USA, 2014), a critical biography of the French Enlightenment author and philosopher. She has taught for Stanford University in Oxford, the Open University, and the University of Surrey at Roehampton. Klappentext "A visionary and a madman" was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica. Zusammenfassung “A visionary and a madman” was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sarsfield Family Tree Neuhoff Family Tree Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Something to Hide 2. A Promising Young Officer 3. Spain and Marriage 4. Neuhoff's Missing Years, 1721-1733 5. 1733-1735: A Rebellion and a Plan 6. A Brilliant Campaign 7. The Murder of Fabiani and After 8. 1737-1739, Monarch on the Run 9. 1740-1748,Receding Hopes 10. 1749-1756, The Baron Bounces Back Bibliography Index About the Author ...
