Liptov v roku 1793 očami Roberta Townsona
Liptov in Year 1793 by Eyes of Robert Townson

Summary/Abstract: Robert Townson (1762 – 1827) was british doctor, natural sciencist, zoologist and traveller. He studied in Paris and later in Edinburgh. As a traveller he visited many countries, including Habsburg monarchy in year 1793. Here he started his journey in Vienna, from where he continued eastwards across cities as Sopron, Győr, Komárno, Esztergom, Buda, Pest, Eger, Debrecen, Oradea, Tokaj, etc. Back to the west he travelled across present days Slovakia and he visited Košice, counties of Šariš, Gemer, Spiš, Liptov, cities Banská Bystrica, Banská Štiavnica, Kremnica, Nitra, Trnava and Bratislava. He writed his experience from this journey into a book Travels in Hungary with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793. He focused mostly on geology, botany, zoology and mining localites, but he mentioned even his personal experience with local people. Nowadays is his book priceless source for knowledge of behavior on the people, because he brings look of foreigner. Our edition shows just parts of his book, in which he writes about county of Liptov. Namely, he writes about Štrba, Štrbské pleso, Važec, ascend on the top of Kriváň, Pribylina, Liptovská Ondrašová, Demänovo cave, Liptovský Ján, Liptovská Teplá, Liptovské Revúce, but even about Liptov in general.

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