Name	D'Asquier, Michel
Alternative Names	QHOD prefLabel: Michel D'Asquier
ID	19105
Gender	male
Lifespan	1590 - 1665
Professions	Dolmetscher

Collection(s)	QHOD Dolmetscher ORDIP
Uri(s)	https://mpr.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entity/19105/
Notes	In 1617, he came into contact with the Aulic War Council as a French-born interpreter for eastern languages in the private service of Habsburg's Ottoman expert Cesare Gallo. He was interpreter, chief interpreter and then expert-adviser at the Viennese War Council. During his almost half a century of service, he became one of the Habsburg Monarchy’s foremost experts on the East, carrying out numerous individual diplomatic missions to Constantinople, the court of the pasha of Buda while he also participated several times in Habsburg-Ottoman peace negotiations. He was involved in the drafting of the Peace of Komárom (1618), the Peace of Gyarmat (1625), the First and Second Peace of Szőny (1627, 1641), and the Peace of Istanbul (1649/1650). He died and was buried in Vienna in 1664.
References	Alastair HAMILTON: Michel D’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 72 (2009), 237–241. Zsuzsanna CZIRÀKI: A Habsburg Monarchia keleti nyelvi tolmácsai a 17. században, Reciti - Budapest, 2024. Open Access: https://www.reciti.hu/2024/8419