The False Joseph II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Beales (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-495 |
| Publication date | 1975-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00008414 |
| OpenAlex | W2044566568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
‘Since I have ascended the throne, and wear the first diadem in the world, I have made philosophy the legislator of my empire.’ Of all the sayings attributed to the Emperor Joseph II, this is easily the most hackneyed. It figures in many surveys of eighteenth-century history, whether old like W. O. Hassall's and A. H. Johnson's or new like those by Stuart Andrews, Maurice Ashley, R. W. Harris and E. N. Williams; in what is regarded as the best biography of Joseph in German, by Viktor Bibl; in the most extended and best known Life in English, Saul K. Padover's The Revolutionary Emperor ; in Herbert H. Rowen's collection of documents, From Absolutism to Revolution ; in Albert Sorel's L'Europe et la Révolution française ; in Victor-L. Tapié's The Rise and Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy ; and in the recent monograph by Walter W. Davis, Joseph II: An Imperial Reformer for the Austrian Netherlands . The remark is the first sentence of a letter which the emperor is supposed to have written to Cardinal Herzan, his minister in Rome, in October 1781, and which goes on
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A Habsburg Emperor for the Next Century
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2011 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |