persons Schröder, Melchior

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Name Schröder, Melchior
Alternative Names
ID 19295
Gender male
Professions Dolmetscher
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  • QHOD
  • Dolmetscher
  • Uri(s) https://mpr.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entity/19295/
    Notes In 1601, he was hired to replace Hieronymus Nagy as interpreter in Győr, and in addition to his duties as interpreter for the War Council, he regularly accompanied Ottoman delegations and participated in prisoner exchanges. He interpreted at the border commission concerning the status of villages that had not been settled in the Peace of Zsitvatorok and was also employed as a Turkish courier to Buda and Constantinople. In 1611 he asked to be dismissed from his post of interpreter, he became tricesima-collector.
    References Zsuzsanna CZIRÀKI: A Habsburg Monarchia keleti nyelvi tolmácsai a 17. században, Reciti - Budapest, 2024.

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